So should the world read your comment as a ditching of soft power to use hard power? Is america going to war?
Is that why you made that statement in the context of everything that was built on that hard power being demolished?
Is that why you made that statement in the context of everything that was built on that hard power being demolished?
The world should read "less carrot, more stick" from the Trump admin.
USAID also has a fairly sketchy record in funding regime change efforts, so countries cooperate with it on a purely transactional basis, "trust" is zero.