global welfare Quotes
At the time America was a very minor player in the world economy and had no external military presence at all. The reason that Lafayette and others saw much of the world’s welfare dependent upon the welfare of America and the success of the American Revolution was because of the concept of a democracy and a republic as opposed to a monarchy and autocracy which was how the rest of the world was governed. If the American experiment succeeded, freedom and democracy would spread as a result of the example. If America failed, reform the world over suffered. And Lafayette was right. America survived and its influence changed virtually all of Europe and much of the rest of the world as well.
She was advocating the then relatively new concept of Foreign Aid.
America was the only democracy in the world. If it failed, democracy would not develop in the rest of the world. Today, most nations are democracies and in part based on the United States democracy. Lafayette realized that.