CaitSeith said:
hanselthecaretaker said:
It would've been far more effective and efficient to just give them the means to fight back and help them to figure their own shit
We clearly haven't learnt much from history yet.
That's how ISIS got their weapons (ironically you're pretty much suggesting to repeat errors from the past); but that's a whole other thread for R&P.
To be a bit more general, this is pretty much how every rogue Islamic militant group got their funding/arms... We handed over tons of weaponry to the Mujaheddin fighters in Afghanistan starting in the 80s and still haven't stopped. We just keep switching which groups we give them out to (and then inevitably end up fighting 5-10 years down the line).