OK .. I see your point .. problem is this, most of these third world countries live in poverty not because they lack land or resources .. but because of their dictatorship government ..
We today send boat loads of money and food and medical supplies to many of these countries .. problem is .. they don't get to their destination mainly because of their government ..
What you say is indisputable. Back in the'80s, I was in a conversation with a Liberal about the (then-current) problem of hunger in Ethiopia. She advocated money, as in "Live-Aid". I said that a FRACTION of the money raised by backslapping, self-important rock stars would be more than enough to solve the problem. She asked, wide-eyed, "How?"
I said that a mercenary force of sufficient strength to overthrow the government that was CAUSING the starvation would cost almost nothing compared to the vast sums which would shortly be funneled to the dictators of that nation.
I figured that a "Wild Geese" type op would take all of a week to eliminate said thugs and return the country to its people, along with the food. Absent that, said I, no solution to the problem would work.
She told me that I was a "Reaganesque" warmonger, and that LOVE, not hate could solve all. Of course.
I felt sorry for one so ignorant. So I gave her cab fare the next day.
