Yes, you can't just do it with bombs like that. You must do it the way we do, by destroying dams and strangling production of fossil fuels! That's the way to starve people you don't like!
No. Globohomo does it with bombs. According to Clinton and Blair, the NATO attack on Yugoslavia was the first “Progressive” War.
“NATO Bombs Serbia Into Darkness”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/belgrade050399.htm