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To be fair, this is literally what happened with the Persian Gulf War. We like to hold it up as a just and tidy war, but Saudi Arabia hired the US to fight Iraq, a military the US had helped create.
Doesn’t mean it isn’t ridiculous Trump would say that, but it’s literally exposing the hypocrisy and ridiculousness at the heart of US foreign policy.
The sad truth is that much of what Trump does has a long history in American politics, it’s just how obviously corrupt and how untalented he is that exposes a rot that’s been there for a long, long time.
It just so happens past presidents played the role more competently and put even a bit of professionalism on its face. Trump is terrible at every facet of the job and so his incompetence means we don’t get that professionalism.
Trump saying we’re going to help Saudi Arabia because they give us money is both true and disgusting. It’s been at the heart of our relations for years. Saying it so brazenly should disgust us. We should’ve been disgusted a long time ago.
