The only thing it does outside their borders is burn through soft power.
Now given the motivation seems to be the increasingly boomeresque notion of oil = power, this is just another in a pretty catastrophically moronic combination of moves.
It must be so easy being one of the quislings in his ranks, you just need to tell him doing something abhorrent will lead him to power. He clearly hasn't got the mental faculties to: A. Identify a lie or B. Rebuke those who do lie. I'd almost feel sorry for him if he wasn't one of the worst examples of humanity to ever respire
I mean asking an average American to define any established political term is like asking a child where Christmas presents come from.
They do not get properly educated about it, average Joe America gets what little political understanding they have from propaganda merchants motivated to keep them angry.