Kuwait 1991. Iraq NFZ 1992-2003. Haiti 1994. Ex-SFR Yugoslavia 1995. Again in 1999.

America has had a lot of less-than-ethical military adventurism, but it's also incorrect to say every instance of it was self-serving.

The problem with Ex-SFR Yugoslavia 1995/99 wasn't too much international/western involvement, but too little.

Oh! Really? https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-bushs-grandfa...

What happend in SK at the times was an authoritarian, maybe even police state. Not especially 'democratic'.

1989? Not that hard when 'mother russia' is collapsing, and occupied otherwise. For some decades, at least.

The fact you call it "mother" Russia lets me hope you use another word when referring to your own mother.

> Oh! Really? https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-bushs-grandfa...

From the article: "(...) his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act" – so... yeah, exactly. Germany 1945.

> Germany 1945

Huh? Soviet Union did the heavy lifting there

You could say soviets did all the WW2 heavy lifting, starting with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_tank_school

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipetsk_fighter-pilot_school

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomka_gas_test_site and

and culminating in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...

lol, not really. First of all, the kind of "heavy lifting" the Soviet Union did was agreeing with Nazi Germany to partition Poland and subsequently raiding it together from both sides (Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact) – never forget they were allies until Hitler turned on them.

The "heave lifting" you refer to was mostly paid for and organized by the Lend-Lease Act. There would have been no eastern front without it.