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Weapon?
Soft power can be welded to bend other nations to your will.
Yes. Long term approach to gaining political influence. Used as a weapon, it fosters dependency. Use as a good will approach, it fosters appreciation and the beginning of a bond of trust.
The infrastructure and loan programs China has been used for years in Africa and South America as the weapon.
Just take a gander of the infrastructure failures and unpayable loans. Also, the rare earth mining in central Africa.
pretty low hanging fruit when the US has been trying to undermine Cuba since the 1920s.
I did not imply the U.S.A. was always doing the right thing. Politics is a bitch, and I would not last 10 minutes as a politician.