Occupy and commit war crimes in the name of “nation building.” Do this until political winds change at home and force us to pull out.

What was the question, again?

Occupy it, commit war crimes, take its oil, then leave when it’s politically/financially advantageous.

/s

Since I’d firmly oppose such a war, I’m going to assume I was elected in a backlash against it.

So I’ll just exit immediately, and instead make an agreement with another, non-invading, democratic country to help with rebuilding (using my country’s money). I’ll sign international treaties admitting the criminal nature of the invasion, pledge reparation, and agree never to do it again. Then start speed-signing disarmament treaties.

I assume I myself would get ousted at some point in this process though.

Set up a provisional government made up of the people who made the coup possible and “negotiate” exclusive resources rights.

Pull a Norway and make a national sovereign fund from the resources.

Use the money from the resources to fund “national education systems” to make the next generation of people more like your native country.

Begin implementing laws that match my laws almost exactly.

After a couple years quietly begin a campaign to make the people of both nations believe the conquerored country wants to join my country.

Military parade in my capital. Compel my legislature to grant me lifetime tenure as First Citizen. Annex the country. No exit strategy.

Peace in our time.

If the invaded country is developed and already has similar values to my culture: copy/paste what was done with Japan and Germany. Write them a new constitution, invest in development.

Else: oh fuck I don’t know. You probably need a strong dictatorship because otherwise the people will vote for their own dictator. Force education, instill modern (yes that’s pejorative) values. 20 years later maybe they can have democracy.

Just fucking leave, but tell them no dictatorships this time or I’ll come back and fuck them up again.

“Just like, you know, behave and whatnot, or we’ll invade again. K, byeeeee!”

-President Fartswithanaccent

I’ve played Rebel Inc, so I know how to do it.

Don’t bribe too many people. Build infrastructure and social programmes. Train local forces to destroy all insurrections.

In my experience it takes more funding than you have to keep the population at ease.

Spend what little money the treasury has left encouraging it to be this years instagram trend for rich white kids to come help my country rebuild.

Use my nationalised phone networks to videocall back home and stay in touch and share all their good works… while stealing all their logins and personal data so I can absolutely fleece them like 6 months after they head home.

First of all 1 free coffee for everyone, to make everyone happy. Then increase taxes to a very ridiculous rate.

If it doesn’t work out. Steal the money and do it again somewhere else.

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

You’re the president of a democracy and your army just deposed a dictator with a war. What’s your plan to rebuild that country, and what’s your exit strategy?

1. Exit Strategy: None. Why would we exit?
2. Rebuild: annex the country that lost as a subdivision of my winning country (e.g. like a USA state or whatever the fuck Wales’s relationship to the UK is). Treat said subdivision like any other when it comes to dealing with problems.

1. Put the former dictator and their government officials to a fair war tribunal/trial for whatever war crimes/human rights violations they preformed. Have the jury/etc composed of people of the occupied country. Televise, live stream it, etc as much as possible to make sure it’s transparent to the people so they know it’s being fairly run and so that all former supporters of the original regime see all the atrocities they committed
2. Provide economic/humanitarian aide to help rebuild country, create jobs/economy for people
3. Begin rebuilding government as democracy, use occasional voting referendums on specifics of new constitution (on bill of rights, parliamentary vs representative democracy, etc) to allow people some participation and act as dry runs for electing political officials. Maybe throw some ranked choice voting in there for fun
4. Run elections for political offices, for the first few elections ensure that the former dictator’s supporters and regime is disqualified so they do not retake power
5. After elections are successful and government seems stabilized, begin de-occupying and giving the country it’s independence