The leaders in the USA have one of the slowest learning curves on the planet, short of the Vatican . . . Which took hundreds of years to acknowledge that the Earth rotated around the Sun.
The leaders in the USA have yet to learn that they cannot force their culture or way of life upon other cultures via military force, sanctions, or whatever other stupidity they can think up.
How so?
This is just the tip of the iceberg . . .
All in the name of "Democracy" . . . . . and Straight from the CIA factbook, let's measure their "success" rate.
North Korea - dictatorship
China - communist party-led state
Guatemala - presidential republic
Indonesia - presidential republic
Congo - semi-presidential republic
Laos - communist state
Vietnam - communist state
Cambodia - parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Grenada - parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy; a Commonwealth realm
Lebanon - parliamentary republic
Libya - in transition
El Salvador - presidential republic
Nicaragua - presidential republic
Iran - theocratic republic
Panama - presidential republic
Iraq - federal parliamentary republic
Kuwait - constitutional monarchy (emirate)
Somalia - federal parliamentary republic
Bosnia - federal parliamentary republic
Sudan - presidential republic
Afghanistan - the United States does not recognize the Taliban government
Yugoslavia - no longer exists as a unified state.
Yemen — in transition
Iraq — federal parliamentary republic
Pakistan — federal parliamentary republic
Syria — presidential republic; highly authoritarian regime
At this rate, they are doing more to destroy “democracy” than they are to create it . . .