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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 years ago (2 children)

...because they seek to help the country build its own military-industrial base.

Clickbait headlines are infuriating.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

... oh, sure. like we did with Afghanistan?

This will surely go well!

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

The US is cutting its losses and moving on it seems. They aren't going to even try the Afghanistan or Vietnam approach of propping up a puppet regime. Though there's a lot of crazy people in the US government, I can see them repeating the same mistakes but expecting a different outcome.