If you think "soft power" is a fake concept, you have very little understanding of how American foreign policy actually works in other countries. For the recor

If you think "soft power" is a fake concept, you have very little understanding of how American foreign policy actually works in other countries. For the record, I don't like American foreign policy, and USAID is basically the CIA in disguise. But in terms of furthering America's goal of being the dominant power in the world, it absolutely works, and is _much_ more financially efficient than the cost of military intervention to establish supremacy.