Not something new. US backed Iraq in past, supplied emos, later fought against it. US aided Mujahideen of Afghanistan in past later become Talibans. US aided P

Not something new. US backed Iraq in past, supplied emos, later fought against it. US aided Mujahideen of Afghanistan in past later become Talibans. US aided Pakistan Army and Afghan government to fight against them. Since it's Hackernews, the best analogy would be funding by VCs to different startups to compete with each other. Here CIA and Pentagon are VCs providing Emos to "Startups" to test their weapons for other wars.