All for the benefit of oil and the M-I-Clet’s list the major foreign conflicts we’ve involved ourselves in over the last 50 years
Vietnam
El Salvador/Nicaragua
Afghanistan 1
Beruit
Kuwait
Somalia
Bosnia
Afghanistan/Iraq
Ukraine
Pretty shitty success rate on that list. Everything in the 60s/70s/80s were Cold War era proxy battles with Vietnam obviously being the largest loss of blood and money. Reagan was willing and able to spend and bleed out the USSR without losing American lives after LBJ and Nixon failed badly in SE Asia.
Kuwait was about oil. That much is painfully obvious. George HW wasn’t going to allow Hussein to control that market in the ME and we lost blood and money there.
Somalia and Bosnia were mostly humanitarian initiatives during the Clinton admin. Minimal loss of life on our side but plenty of money spend
Then you had the “war on terror” that became another war for oil for W and Cheney. More lives. More money.
Then this latest mess in Ukraine, which is nothing more than a pay day for weapons manufacturers and a corrupt tin pot dictator and his buddies in Washington DC
Kudos to Joe for getting his payday without getting a bunch of American troops killed at least. We’d spent out Afghanistan and needed a new conflict to get the dollars flowing again. Blue and yellow flags on Twitter tell me it’s going great.
Ike called it out and JFK was killed for it.