• sovietknuckles [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The US tried having other allies in the region and mostly only came up with the Kurds. The US will sometimes align with Pakistan or Saudi Arabia on key issues like funding the Mujahideen in order to maximize the USSR’s death toll to minimize their influence, but Ukraine is replacement for that purpose against Russia, and Israel is a good US ally for common interests like killing brown people, which helps the US with destabilization for the purpose of resource extraction