You don’t level a country’s infrastructure and have it be globally competitive overnight. I beg you to include a crumb of materialist analysis into the equation.
The point is that it’s the US intervention is causing them to “not work”, not on their merits themselves. If I firebombed every red house in the neighborhood and they got rebuilt at being blue, we wouldn’t say red houses are naturally prone to combust and fail, right?
We’ve been an evil empire for a while now. A long history of wars, coups, and foreign intervention. It’s a lot more visible in the internet age and the propoganda machine isnt working like it used to.