Fixing elections is what the CIA does. And colonialism always comes home to roost. This phenomenon was first explicitly catalogued after the Boer Wars, when British tactics used against guerillas and their families trickled down into the domestic legal system.
This is how neoliberalism works. You do some foreign adventuring, you test your limits in regards to population control, and then you liberalize the corners down into something your domestic populace will accept being placed upon them, with your country's newfound capital from all that colonialism serving as the spoonfuls of sugar.
Fixing elections is what the CIA does. And colonialism always comes home to roost. This phenomenon was first explicitly catalogued after the Boer Wars, when British tactics used against guerillas and their families trickled down into the domestic legal system.
This is how neoliberalism works. You do some foreign adventuring, you test your limits in regards to population control, and then you liberalize the corners down into something your domestic populace will accept being placed upon them, with your country's newfound capital from all that colonialism serving as the spoonfuls of sugar.