” That’s pretty damn funny and a good reson why RP is popular. There was a guy we used to finance in Afghanistan against the Soviets called ... Osama bin Laden.
It’s why RP does not support foreign intervention.”
Ever heard of Stalin? So we supported him to defeat Hitler. Want to take that back as well?
The enemy of our enemy is our friend....no matter how shortly that lasts. If it was up to me, Patton would have steam-rolled through the russian military right after world war II.
Yes, I would not ever have supported Stalin. He took our support, our money, and came back at us with the Cold War. Why was Patton put on a leash - because Stalin was our “ally”. We chained ourselves, and unleashed Stalin to do what he did.
Every single time we’ve “meddled”, we’ve made things harder for ourselves in the end.
Stalin’s Russia was exhausted in every way by his war with Hitler. Our material support just propped him up that much longer to get his factories producing again, and gave the world East Germany and the whole invasion of Eastern Europe.
Same with China - our support of Chiang resulted in many resources falling onto the hands of Mao.
Without any of that, we might not have gone to Korea or Vietnam. Maybe.
We’ll never know, because we won’t stop meddling.
In the 19th century, we stayed out of foreign conflicts for the most part, and the world got along without us. In the 20th century, we got involved in foreign wars and hundreds of millions died under the dictators we helped enable. Was that completely our fault ? No, of course not, but we did contribute.
I am not a blame-America-firster. There’s lots of blame to go to all parties involved. But, that doesn’t mean I will overlook our part, either.