Re: Isreal would be an example
Try again Scott...........
Israel has had well over 140 Billion in subsidies from the american taxpayer and still counting.......... it enjoys the friendship and favourable trading terms of the worlds richest treading blocs.......unlike the unremitting hostile blockade the old USSR got..... fact is.... Israel may have been your worst possible choice. Unless your taking into account the fact that Israel, like the Old USSR, forcibely occupied the lands of other peoples, thereby earning the enmity of it's nieghbours.
A comparison could be made there