Or is nation building only good when the defense industry and our political elite can make money off it?
We are so far away from Reagan's foreign policy, which had the objective of freeing people in the rest of the world from tyranny.
Broadcasting this wild post by a certain Russian for the humor in it. You will no doubt think of your own explanations for his counterfactual rant. Mine is medical.
Russian mir is the poster child for tyranny
Nation building certainly has not worked in Palestine. I remember decades ago when Israel moved out of Gaza and turned it over to the Palestinians. THey had left a lot of useful infrastructure the Palestinians could use to maintain a viable state. One such was a system of greenhouses to grow needed food. The first thing the Palestinians did was DESTROY these greenhouses. Why? Because they were built by Israelis. How do you cure HATE and STUPID. Especially one controlled by a religion that requires brainwashing prayers and ceremonies 5 times a day.
Last night I was watching a special about a family of North Koreans in the process of escaping via Tailand to Vietnam for eventual settling in S. Korea. It showed the massive daily brainwashing and punishment methods to keep the people believing in working hard for their totally essential DEAR LEADER, and how solidly it was ingrained in the grandmother, and the children who were just obeying their parents who wanted OUT. Eventually they were filmed in S. Korea where they ALL were so happy they had left N. Korea.
The assertion that Ukraine was not an actual nation prior to the coup in 2014 is an admission that it was a vassal state of Moscow prior to that. That’s why the Ukrainian people chose sovereignty.