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US foreign policy today is hard to describe as its changing with the election of trump but lets say that we were observing the time a bit before this and more in the present-day era.
We used to stay neutral will all countries we could but we began to see that it was not always best to stay neutral (as in the case of WWI and WWII). The failed attempt after World War I to make a league of nations that operated well just demonstrated the problems we had, and was the reason why WWII happened and adolf hitler was able to come to power.
Today, we use economic and military forces on places that are labeled unstable to try and make these places more stable and set up a democratic government.
This for the most part, has failed miserably such as in Syria and Iraq.
Again, mods, please write me if you have concerns over links but I find students learn best sometimes from visuals. This video describes the problem that happened in Iraq/Syria that led to the failure of US troops trying to make the government more stable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQPlREDW-Ro
This second video goes more in-depth about the Syrian crisis and shows how US foreign policies affected it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvOnXh3NN9w&t=12s
I'd say that the statistics that <span>reflects the nature of global poverty and the disparity of wealth between richer nations and poorer nations is the following one:
</span>Poorest 40 percent of the world's population accounts for 5 percent of global income.
Most of the countries in the world are poor, especially if you take into consideration African countries, as well as some Asian countries which also don't have a lot of money, but work really hard for a low payment.
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Even though I was a merchant, I was tempted to switch professions.
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