Not exactly sure your perspective from your comment, but what would you advocate in the current situation in Ukraine?
I can lay my perspective out, just to be transparent. It sure as hell will be down-voted and isn’t popular in these parts. Near as I can tell, and from the very beginning, just pure numbers-wise Ukraine will eventually lose, unless they convince Europe that this involves them too, and damn, they’ve been trying. Thick propaganda recently. Neo-cons and Libs really want this shit for their MIC donors, but there’s no benefit to anyone else in the USA for this carnage. Actually engaging NATO countries in combat in Ukraine means nukes before too long and everyone on Earth loses, which is primarily why it’s all been supplies, money and training thus far.
For me, whatever gets this thing to end quickly, the better. Fewer lives will be lost for nothing. The already lost land is lost. Sorry Ukraine, you got sold a bill of goods from McCain and Graham, et al. News flash: they never gave a shit about you. Zelensky was and is a CIA cutout that is finding fewer and fewer tributes to fund his losing battle. He’s getting desperate. Big smoke clouds look impressive, but don’t change the raw numbers. Zelensky will ultimately abscond to his house in Miami unless he is assassinated first.
Trump is clearly doing the diesel ‘deal’ in some strange hope to undo the effects of another dumb war he started and quickly lost control of. First on the chopping block (after obvious ‘allies’ in SW Asia) is Ukraine, which has no resources to offer, and everything to lose when they get abandoned to somehow save face. It’s tragically unfortunate for all the loves lost to this carnage, but that’s the cost of trusting the USA to have your back.
https://web.archive.org/web/20191028041753/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm
The history is a little more complex than giving weapons, but US-owned companies manufactured equipment for the Nazis. “The business of America is business” rings true.
“American managers of both GM and Ford went along with the conversion of their German plants to military production at a time when U.S. government documents show they were still resisting calls by the Roosevelt administration to step up military production in their plants at home.”
During the war, US bombing plans avoided American-owned factories. When they couldn’t, they compensated the companies for the losses inflicted.
Again, it’s complex, and fascinating in many regards, but the business interests that drive the US government were also building the Nazi war machine.