# Why US Democracy Promotion and Nation-Building in Haiti Are Criticized

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2008378130218484160
- Source account: [@Rothmus](https://x.com/Rothmus)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:55
- Published: 2026-10-11
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3asKBTIfU5Au/en/why-us-democracy-promotion-and-nation-building-in-haiti-are-criticized

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3asKBTIfU5Au/en/why-us-democracy-promotion-and-nation-building-in-haiti-are-criticized) One thing you've been critical of the United States of in the past has been its, um, efforts to spread democracy around the world.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3asKBTIfU5Au/en/why-us-democracy-promotion-and-nation-building-in-haiti-are-criticized?t=8) What, what do you object to in the, in the, in that push?

[0:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3asKBTIfU5Au/en/why-us-democracy-promotion-and-nation-building-in-haiti-are-criticized?t=10) No, I don't, I don't think it's doable. I'm a social Darwinist.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3asKBTIfU5Au/en/why-us-democracy-promotion-and-nation-building-in-haiti-are-criticized?t=17) I mean- Survival of the fittest. No. The survival requires you to change.

[0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3asKBTIfU5Au/en/why-us-democracy-promotion-and-nation-building-in-haiti-are-criticized?t=24) If you don't change, then you're marginalized, and you will become extinct.

[0:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3asKBTIfU5Au/en/why-us-democracy-promotion-and-nation-building-in-haiti-are-criticized?t=31) It's- But you look at the way in which, uh, the United States has been trying to push democracy, uh, around the world- Yes ... and you say- Where have you succeeded?

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3asKBTIfU5Au/en/why-us-democracy-promotion-and-nation-building-in-haiti-are-criticized?t=40) You went to Haiti in nation building, and I've just...

[0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/3asKBTIfU5Au/en/why-us-democracy-promotion-and-nation-building-in-haiti-are-criticized?t=45) Well, I was just listening to, uh, the BBC on Haiti un- recently. I mean, it, it's just undoable