> So we just.. let it play out? no. ideally "we" use sanctions and economic incentives, but also all the troops should go home or only remain there for civil s

> So we just.. let it play out? no. ideally "we" use sanctions and economic incentives, but also all the troops should go home or only remain there for civil support (clean up, distribute aid, lot of non-capitalistic, socialist ideas I have as a European which most Americans would hate like the plague). Secondly, people like Eric Prince and other Blackwater, "Wagner Group" type private terrorists should be prosecuted by the ICC. And "we" make the US play by the same rules as they dish out to the rest of the world. any "call for peace" from the West can never not be hypocritical. Even if we would try, it's a silly pipe dream that will never play out in our universe. (nor is any other reality that advocates for a world without war and blood). But the least we can do IMHO is to _not_ continue what we've been doing since hundreds of years in that part of the world ("protecting our interests abroad" as the US call it). the only thing to be on the right side here morally is to clean up our own act so that nobody in our own countries thinks ICE and children in cages are justifiable. Or that it's OK that refugee children and families get separated, raped and rotting in our FRONTEX secured Greek islands. Make room in the prisons for all these criminals running companies and not paying their taxes and maintain the death penalty (where it exists) only for white-collar crime or those that abuse the power they've been given (law enforcement & any public office). Literally any crazy idea that improves society in our own countries would be better than keeping troops in Africa. And none of these idealistic suggestions above (insert your own dreams and lunacy if you think you can do better) will play out the way we want them. But nothing good can come for us in the West if we pretend we're "the good guys" who bring "democracy" and "equal opportunity" or whatever we believe that we're doing there. What we stand for in reality in these countries is hypocrisy, black sites, drones, legalized torture & kidnapping, foreign meddling, ... so apologies I don't believe it when we're saying "we must stay there because we are the lesser evil" or whatever BS