Yep Nemo.
The main reason that U.S. "interventions" turn what they intervent with
to total shite and permanently hopeless basket cases (Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia, Ukraine
Yemen etc, etc) is the Americans themselves have no history to speak of and therefore very
limited historical understanding.
I wanted to address this in more depth. What you say is only partially true.
If US had more presidents like JFK, or if Ron Paul wasn't cheated out of his presidency, then US' handling of the world affairs would have been far better.
Conversely, having a long history does not guarantee that a country does not make stupid moved. Case in point: Poland, which keeps on stepping on the same historical rake time and again.
First during the Time of Trouble (Smuta) during 1600s they installed a false king on the Russian throne (False Dmitrij/Lzhedmitrij). The result: count Minin and merchant Pozharskij raised a people's militia , marched on Moscow and drove Poles out. Minin and Pozharskij now have a memorial on the Red Square commemorating their heroic deed. (Interestingly, in parallel to today's events, foreign citizens fought on the side of Russian people back then as well, the forefather of the famous Russian poet Lermontov - Lermont - came to Russia during that time from Scotland. Also, there are parallels in today's heroic actions of Strelkov and Motorola, mastering people's militia, with what seems the ultimate goal of driving the outlandish usurpers from Kiev).
Then in 1810s, Polish general Sokolnitskij presented Napoleon with a business plan of conquering and dividing Russia between France and Poland. The result, Napoleon used Polish troops as front-line cannon fodder on the promise of Russian lands, and later this whole horde was driven all the way to Paris. To be fair, a number of Polish officers and squadrons fought on Russian side as well in those 1812 days. (Maybe today's French humiliation with Mistrals at the hand of the Poles is a twisted form of revenge for that)
Afterwards, after the disastrous for Russia October coup d'etat of 1917 (which bears similarities to the February 2014 coup in Kiev), Poles again saw their chance and during the civil war of 1918 the Polish intervention waltzed over the lands of today's Ukraine and came almost all the way to Moscow. The Red Army managed to stop the invasion and drive Poles all the way back to Warsaw.
It seems Poles are itching to step on the same rake yet again.
Russia also does a fair amount of mistakes, despite clear back-knowledge of the history. For example, it should have never pulled its cultural influence from Ukraine after 1992. If its presence remained, there would not be now a whole generation of Ukrainians raised on falsified history book, believing that Ukrainian is a separate ethnos and that Julius Ceaser was a Ukrainian.