Please help explain the nuances of this "pragmatic" project of our far seeing rulers because it doesn't make any sesne to either myself or other benighted Paulities.
We give aid to North Korea, then we cut it off, then we provide it again. We give Israel tons of foreign aid but then to "balance" this, we also give tons of aid to Egypt. Meanwhile, the Middle Eastern mess remains unsolved after six decades.
In Afghanistan, we aided Jihadists to fight the Ruskies. They win and now we are aiding their opponents. In Iraq, we helped Saddam to fight Iran but then.....well you know what happened.
We aid Tajikistan, which is run by a mass murderer, for strategic reasons while, at the same time, we give aid in a mis-fired project to turn a medieval hell-hole like Iraq into a "democracy." Need I go on?
Loyalties shift. There aren’t any contants. It’s the way the game of realpolitik is played.