Wipe out the entire human population everywhere in the country, fence off the entire border and re-wild the land. Build a castle on top of the highest point of the new forest. Reconnect with nature. In the daytime, watch the clouds float across the sky like nature’s ships on an endless ocean. At night, watch and track the moon and the stars. Occasionally remark on how the world is much nicer now that we are the only humans left on the land. Open it up to tourism and rake in billions from fat, selfish Americans taking selfies at the ruins. Lie to the whole world and tell them the population’s corrupt government killed them off and lament on our failure to save them.
🤷 You want us to commit genocide, so genocide you will get. Nation building is genocide.
You’re the president of a democracy and your army just deposed a dictator with a war. What’s your plan to rebuild that country, and what’s your exit strategy?
- Exit Strategy: None. Why would we exit?
- Rebuild: annex the country that lost as a subdivision of my winning country (e.g. like a USA state or whatever the fuck Wales’s relationship to the UK is). Treat said subdivision like any other when it comes to dealing with problems.
If cabbage will grow there: grow a bunch and make a really dope national dish out of it. I then create a network of people in every other country in the world and brutally enforce the secrecy of the recipe.
The entire world craves the cabbage dish. We have the cabbage dish and will kill you for making it.
I am eventually accused of high cabbage crimes by American sympathizers inside my ranks and deposed.
America takes over and immediately attempts to monetize the cabbage dish with tourism.
Capitalists cut costs far enough that the dish is no longer fire. People bore of it. America pulls out of the country citing mission accomplished.
If the country can’t grow cabbage: I wouldn’t have invaded it.
Occupy and commit war crimes in the name of “nation building.” Do this until political winds change at home and force us to pull out.
What was the question, again?
Since I’d firmly oppose such a war, I’m going to assume I was elected in a backlash against it.
So I’ll just exit immediately, and instead make an agreement with another, non-invading, democratic country to help with rebuilding (using my country’s money). I’ll sign international treaties admitting the criminal nature of the invasion, pledge reparation, and agree never to do it again. Then start speed-signing disarmament treaties.
I assume I myself would get ousted at some point in this process though.
