Oh come on, name ONE ally we’ve armed that turned out to be a bad idea*, other than Iraq and Panama?
*excluding captured equipment, of the like which fell into the hands of Vietnam, ISIS, and the Taliban; or states which swapped sides unexpectedly, like Venezuela, Iran, and Ethiopia; or countries which we supply which regularly stab us in the back, like Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
I can legitimately name foreign policy successes of US military aid. But the fact that I can rattle off so many failures suggests that US foreign policy has been less-than-fucking-stellar, even from a purely self-interested standpoint.
Almost like international politics is hard, and dipshits who want to imagine it as dominoes or staring contests are responsible for millions of fucking deaths or something.
Oh come on, name ONE ally we’ve armed that turned out to be a bad idea*, other than Iraq and Panama?
*excluding captured equipment, of the like which fell into the hands of Vietnam, ISIS, and the Taliban; or states which swapped sides unexpectedly, like Venezuela, Iran, and Ethiopia; or countries which we supply which regularly stab us in the back, like Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
I can legitimately name foreign policy successes of US military aid. But the fact that I can rattle off so many failures suggests that US foreign policy has been less-than-fucking-stellar, even from a purely self-interested standpoint.
Almost like international politics is hard, and dipshits who want to imagine it as dominoes or staring contests are responsible for millions of fucking deaths or something.
Lockheed shareholders: just as planned