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There is no counter-example of thriving democracies developed after western regime change projects. On the other hand, there’s Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.
by blub 2y ago
There is no counter-example of thriving democracies developed after western regime change projects. On the other hand, there’s Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.
- throwup238 2y ago[flagged]
- grumple 2y agoAlso Italy and Austria.
- roenxi 2y agoIf the examples springing to mind were in 1945 then that says a lot about how US efforts are going in the modern era. There is no real comparison to how the US handled defeated powers in WWII and how the State Department handles regime changes from ... I want to say the 60s onwards. All the people involved in Germany or Japan's reconstitution are dead (Ed Deming, we miss you; heros of the peace are the most impressive ones). Which is a shame because the 1950s strategy of investment and prosperity made the world much better and the modern strategy of destabilisation tends to make it worse.
- Apocryphon 2y agoThe modern Balkans seem better now than they were at the early ‘90s.
- Apocryphon 2y agoTunisia
- ssijak 2y agoIt is not a democracy https://time.com/7020023/tunisia-kais-saied-democracy/ https://time.com/7020023/tunisia-kais-saied-democracy/