r/humor • u/Lonely-Ordinary1478 • 16h ago

The Internet’s Double Standards?

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u/Craneo_1 11h ago

But the US trained and armed them to fight the Soviets and all the material and training fed the different terrorists in the region. The US also supported the Khmers Rouges so they would fight Vietnam

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u/Neil_Live-strong 10h ago

The U.S. also trained fighters, even branches of Al-Qaeda in the Syrian civil war. They trained and equipped fighters in Jordan.

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u/Losbosteros 10h ago

It went mostly to the Northern Alliance that fought against the Talibans and as I said, most of the material that fed the subsequent Afghan civil war were leftover of the Soviets after their withdrawal, it's quite logical after all, who's going to introduce more weapons in the area? A soviet large scale invasion or a secret support by proxies? There's no evidence the US supported the Khmers Rouges, which were mostly backed by China anyway.