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"As for Ukraine, the OUM-B and its offshoots are batshit crazy and very dangerous. Serious countries do not compromise themselves the way the US has done by sponsoring those sorts. Normalizing people that extreme guarantees disaster."

The United States has form. To give the most infamous example, the same people who later became the Taliban were invited to the White House, and proclaimed by President Reagan himself to be "the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers". That did not age well.

Then there were the neocons agitating for the United States to take on the role of being al Qaeda's (and ISIS') air force in Syria. What could ever have possibly gone wrong?

Or the lavishly documented track record of American support for the worst death squads in Latin America, not to mention the Khmer Rouge regime, both before and after 1979.

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