Jews, Chinese, Saudi Arabia does that quite a bit with their indoctrination facilities in the west set up as religious buildings, the US tries but more times than not it ends up backfiring in their face. The left think they are doing that but it's more they piss off the rest of the world.

I miss the time in history of empire's when you'd get a great power, see how much they could take with gunboat diplomacy and if the other side was REALLY good at fighting, the empire would go 'you wanna join us and kick butt on a global scale?' It's how the Brits got the Gurkas.

This 'cloak and dagger' shit only works when you also use your brain, otherwise both sides might decide to just kick your shit in..