> arming nations / populations that are or want to align with the west is in our best interests, arming anyone fighting someone we don't like isn't. this is the crux of the fucking issue anon. this shit is too vague and changes way to quickly across the years to be a serious or reasonable way to conduct shit. by this logic the past hundreds+ years of stupid shit we just discussed was perfectly reasonable military intervention because muh western alignment shit.  the great fucking war falls into this bullshit since that is the west running in to aid western aligned serbia and russia when that shit boiled over with austria and germany, the government of south vietnam was western aligned and extremely friendly to the west that kept it even remotely able to exist, fucking israel in its quest to bomb anything that does or doesnt move in the middle east is a western aligned power.
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