The US is rarely interested in affronts against democracy unless there's a geopolitical advantage to be had by leveraging it.
From a practical standpoint, US interventions almost always make things worse for the people who live there, and in a lot of cases less democratic.
Who are the countries who are willing to intercede militarily purely to liberate a country?
> From a practical standpoint, US interventions almost always make things worse for the people who live there, and in a lot of cases less democratic.
I think this is a fair criticism—intercession is hard—but the question isn’t whether things are better or worse than they were, but rather whether they were better or worse than they would have been under Soviet influence. And you can analyze this as “whether or not a specific country is better or worse” as well as “whether or not the world is better or worse for the diminished soviet influence that would have been afforded by that country falling under Soviet influence”.
Libya? way way worse, i mean its a place you can buy slaves in open markets now after US intervention...
list is huge, some places they would take out democracy to put in puppet dictatorships all in the interest of the US, they will work with Saudi Arabia and in last 5 years starve 80,000 kids to death in Yemen under 5 years.
i can only list a few countries that US intervention ended actually helping both the US and the country.
so yes USA will claim to come in to give "democracy" or what ever humanitarian excuse but its never for those reasons, its always for the interest of US and US corporations, i mean didn't the US take a country just because corporations wanted it for growing Bananas? and still to this day they are messing with them ?
Putin was KGB mafia boy.
Kravcuk, and Kucma were party bosses of state enterprises.
Aliyevs were KGB men
Shevardnaze was USSR's foreign minister
The whole of Central Asia is basically ruled by exactly the same Moscow's satraps since late eighties, with exception of wild tempered Kyrgyzstan.
Mongolia, "the 16th republic," also had communist comeback, only ended by an extreme, Norko style economic collapse.
The only country of ex-USSR where CPSU did not recapture the power outside of Baltics was Armenia, but only thanks to power going to their nazis. A medicine worse than the poison.
And it was also clear nobody in Europe cared or was going to do anything, even if it was also in their craven interest.
Probably didn't align with their August vacation schedule plans or something.
There have been a lot of catastrophic $&@$ ups and terrible ideas, but it's selective history to claim there have been no positive outcomes for the people who live there.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Iraq_(2013%E2%80%9320...
IMHO, it seems like most Iraqis are better off living under a government than IS, but your opinion may differ.
Almost all. I can really think of two counterexamples, Japan and Korea (and it took a very long time ~30 years? for korea to figure itself out). Maybe Jugoslavia can be put into that bin too, though it's not clear if the US intervention hurt or helped.
A Mig fighter jet was dispatched to shepherd the airliner. This represents a threat to anyone on a flight through or maybe even near Belarus's airspace.
Hard to argue with the second when looking at the past 2 decades, but looking broader in the past century I think there are many more arguments the other way. Most of Europe for one.
