Lutheran Husband Dad Kentuckian Demographer. Please forgive me: my tweets are often accidentally mean. @DemographicNTEL, @FamStudies Pronatalism Initiative
That’s the only way to do it.
Nobody wants to hear it but the only “tested” way to fundamentally and durably reorient the strategic interests of a foreign country is to destroy it and then rebuild it in your image, but that is the case
We (the Allies collectively) also killed between 8-12% of the German, and 4-6% of the Japanese, populations and quite literally bombed both nations into ruins. Then occupied both with hundreds of thousands of soldiers for decades while (again literally) rewriting how their societies would function and enforcing the changes at gunpoint.