How many problems in the US are due at least in part to the desire to support and promote democracy?
We wouldn’t be involved / concerned with NATO unless we valued democracy and freedom for our partners, no?
We wouldn’t be involved / concerned with NATO unless we valued democracy and freedom for our partners, no?
The argument becomes more interesting when talking about the last 10 years. The US actually does not have a lot of self-interested reasons to keep engaging in the ME as much as they do. Controlling energy and trade is useful, but containing China seems to be the more pressing issue, and binding a lot of ressources in the ME might be dangerous going forward. Either way, it is the center point of the world, so controlling it, or plunging it into chaos, both benefit a power on the margins like the US.