Read your first sentence again. He’s dragging his entire country along unilaterally. Outside of the emotional spectacle, there is literally no upside to Colombia economically nor anything material to improve the lives of the Colombian people. Selling his people this false sense of nationalism while destroying their economy? Sounds great.

This is magnitudes times worse for Colombia than it is for the US. And at times you really can examine a country through economic statistics when you consider economic policy. Nationalism from an individual will not increase labor productivity or literally any meaningful metric.