Because we, correctly, assume that some countries are simply beyond saving. Throwing good money after bad.

Why "correctly"? Who says that a country or a group of humans or even an individual human is beyond saving?

> Who says that a country or a group of humans or even an individual human is beyond saving?

The one doing the saving.

Surely the one needing help should not be the to decide. They will always say “I’m worth saving”.

Less cynically, perhaps we correctly realize that some countries are beyond our saving by us throwing money at them.