“Tillerson was only stating reality.”
True, the US has backed “authoritarian” regimes when it has suited.
True, the US has backed “authoritarian” regimes when it has suited.
It has always been that way. We had an alliance with the Soviet Union to defeat the NAZIs.
The Soviets were every bit as evil as the NAZIs, but they were not as much, right then, of a threat. They became the major threat a few years later.
We backed France over England in the war of 1812. Most of the world is ruled by thugs and monsters.