I think we obsess far far far far too much about “democracy” when we should be concerned with pushing societal tolerance for diversity as a foreign policy… which is the opposite my country does even though it is deep into denial about it in many ways.

If we are to seek to influence the lives of others living in another nation that cannot vote against or for our choices, which is an always tenuous proposition, than surely it must be focused on raising up the general wellbeing of that country not trying to focus injected power into specific individuals and institutions that will send an nearly-opaque-from-the-outside internal domestic political landscape into chaos in ways virtually none of us are qualified to even begin to predict.

There is no forcing democracy on anyone through any means since the violence inherent to forcing a society into something always creates an explosively violent strain that remains hostile to any progress, most especially democratic, before destruction because it cannot see anything good as untainted by that initial violence of forcing. This is in a sense the root mechanism that turns otherwise normal people deeply violent through their fundamentalism.