Exactly. Bomb em, steal their relief funds, exploit the hell out of them. But whatever you do, don't call them a bad name or the Liberals will scream for your head.
Ironically --- bombing 'em, stealing their resources, exploiting them, sending your military in to **** with them nineteen times even before you got around to recognizing them (because they're black), occupying them for two decades and then economically blockading them is exactly HOW you turn them into a shithole.
To be complete, that's just Step One. Step Two is to sit on your golden throne bleating "look what they did to their country! Maybe we should invade them yet again".
When did we bomb Haiti or steal its resources? "Exploiting" is totally meaningless, so I won't waste my time getting you to explain how we did that.
United States occupation of Haiti - Wikipedia
Between 1911 and 1915, Haiti was politically unstable: a series of political assassinations and forced exiles resulted in six presidents holding office during this period.[3] Various revolutionary armies carried out the coups. Each was formed by cacos, or peasant militia from the mountains of the north, or who invaded along the porous Dominican border. They were enlisted by rival political factions under the promises of money, which would be paid after a successful revolution, and the opportunity to plunder.[citation needed]
That sounds like a country that is already a shithole.
I didn't say "we", Finger boy. The bombing was the image I riffed off of, the exploiting part of another post.
Most of the rest applies though. First we didn't recognize the second independent republic in the Americas, after our own, for its first fifty-eight years, because of racism. Even before we finally did in 1862 --- it required the Civil War to start to happen --- we were already sending the military there, nineteen times including the 1880s when Benjamin Harrison tried to take over land for a military base. Then there was a whole military occupation lasting nineteen years during which we rewrote laws to enable us to land-grab. When that was finally over not one, not two but three Presidential administrations had the place blockaded.
But hey we could certainly cite other 'shitholes' that we
did bomb and/or steal its resources. And then later look back and pretend the place just popped up like that and we had nothing to do with it.