The caveat would probably be that democracies only avoid wars which require democratic decisions to set in motion. I would say that most covert US meddling in

The caveat would probably be that democracies only avoid wars which require democratic decisions to set in motion. I would say that most covert US meddling in foreign governments was covert for exactly that reason. .. probably some of the anti-Communist actions were the closest thing to democratically-approved intervention. And a lot of that was still covert.