>Syria for example, even though It probably wasn't the best place on earth, as perfectly fine before the US and NATO decided to shower them with the blessing of democracy.

Perfectly fine? That's about as bad an example as you can think of. Look up all the crazy stuff Syria did to its own people in the last few decades. While it wasn't the war zone it is now, it was one of the more brutal regimes on the planet for decades. Plenty of disappeared people, to add to all that.