Let's not forget the broader geopolitical context and the relations among nations that can result (this basically expands and refines the author's main point).

Let's not forget the broader geopolitical context and the relations among nations that can result (this basically expands and refines the author's main point). For example, South Korea's material prosperity is also the result of American geopolitics. If you had told someone not 75 years ago that a nation of rice farmers would become an advanced industrialized country in the time that it did, you would have been laughed out of the room. The US needed South Korea to be what it is and the country benefited from it economically. In other words, it was in the broader American political and economic interest to encourage South Korean growth.