...and the Mouse continues to Roar.
We could have taken $40 billion and bought off every politician and public officer in any given corrupt African nation, moved them out, then instituted a working government under US direction and thereby moved hundreds of thousands out of insane poverty.
Instead we’re just pissing it away on a bunch of leftist globalists who will use it to buy confiscated Russian yachts.
That would not work, because of genetic factors. That country would have a rush of fake prosperity, but after the money is gone it will look exactly as it was before. OK, there will be some remnants of grandeur poking above the slums, but thats it.