Hehe is it though? How did the US really start? What is the CIA, if not actually just an internal, state backed mercenary force? What was ISIS, when it was being backed by US money? What is even the "Government" of Ukraine since it received 50Bn of US support?
I actually really like your story. I didn't know much about Macchiavelli, thanks for the insight into what he was about.
But best of all, your story does beg us to look also critically at the US, after examination of Russia, and the Wagner Group, we have to look critically at our own governments also, especially the US government, and ask ourselves honestly, who was first, in what we might call the modern age, to begin the practice of hiring folk with no scruples to go kill people in remote countries or even our own countries, to try to achieve political ambitions?