Comment by wrsh07
4 days ago
I think Sarah Paine on dwarkesh has noted that it tends to go well when the countries already have fairly robust institutions and tends to go badly when they don't
As I'm not a historian, I can only note that it hasn't gone well recently even when multiple successive presidents want it to
In Iraq/Afghanistan, the US dismantled the institutions and tried to build new ones.
In Venezuela, it appears they are simply moving the gun to the head of Maduro's replacement.