I think we need a new model for keeping nations in line that doesn’t involve massive expenditures in terms of $$ and blood. Simply put: we lay down the conditions and, if they don’t comply, we bomb the stuffing out of ‘em. Or spray Agent Orange on their poppy fields. Basically, we make them feel if the pain X10 if they mess with us. No nation building, foreign aid, or reparations. They should get the message real fast.
If all else fails, nuke ‘em from space—just to be sure.
Agent Orange will allow them to re-grow poppies there in a year. AO was never anything more than a fast kill of broadleaf and shrubby plants, and was a combination of 2,4-5 T and 2,4-D herbicides. It was the former than degenerated in the heat of storage in Vietnam to compounds that included dioxines, btw.
What is needed here is a wonderful soil sterilant called “Sahara DG” (”dg” for “dry granules”). Railroads use it on their rights-of-way to keep plants from growing up through the ballast under the tracks. It prevents anything from growing for five years, binds with clays in the soil to render it immobile under most conditions and works really, really well.
Sahara DG would be the equivalent of sowing their fields with salt.