What do you mean by this? I said 3 things and you made a metaphor, I don't know which one you're talking about.
Buying their favor is what we did with (post) Nazi Germany and that worked out great. Of course, we owned them at that point, but we made the most of it.
russia was given money to build by the eu and others, especially by germany, which is why their petrol and natural gas supplies were so closely linked, as they thought if their economys were dependent on each other they'd behave. How'd that turn out?
China didn't "work" with the west because they wanted a good economical relationship. they did it because they fell out with the soviet union and needed aid. They continued to fund wars against the west , are currently hacking our computers to steal trade secrets and are undermining us at every point. So another great relationship we should become even more dependent on, huh?
Holy shit if you actually think giving north korea more money will somehow turn them into a democracy. How do you even function being this naive?
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