Invoke emergency legislation to gain more power and dissolve the government. Then, become the new de facto dictator.

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.

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.

Set up a provisional government made up of the people who made the coup possible and “negotiate” exclusive resources rights.

Pull a Norway and make a national sovereign fund from the resources.

Use the money from the resources to fund “national education systems” to make the next generation of people more like your native country.

Begin implementing laws that match my laws almost exactly.

After a couple years quietly begin a campaign to make the people of both nations believe the conquerored country wants to join my country.

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?