Implying that the US chooses foreign support on the basis of democratic principles is misleading at-best

It’s like me telling my doctor that I have a glass of wine a day, even though I also have a bottle of whiskey a day.

Welp, I guess that pen plotter I built last year is going to be my full time printer

This is my attitude whenever someone complains about there being too much ‘politics’ in everything.

Everything touches politics, but we only notice it when it adversely effects us. The people who take as granted that politics is it’s own thing are usually the people who are the most privileged by it.