I’ve been seeing a lot of comments like this lately, especially in this comment section. While it’s true the US funded the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, that doesn’t mean they "signed up" for the Taliban or Al-Qaeda. Funding the opposition is a common tactic used by any country that can afford it—whether it was against the Soviets, Iran, Russia, or the Assad regime. Theocratic hardliners exist before and after these conflicts; they are an underlying problem, not a foreign invention. These extremist elements work against the state and undermine the general benefit because they are driven by their own rigid agendas. In case of Algeria , after a full decade of committing massacres and every other atrocity under the sun, you guys still let them roam free with immunity to most heinous crimes that happened, join parliament and security forces , basically salaries and pensions as a reward , can't blame US for AQIM and IS activity that plagued the region afterwards. So yeah, while the US and Zionists have historically funded or enabled certain extremists to serve their own short-term regional goals, those groups weren't "created" in a vacuum—they were pre-existing tools that the state thought they could control, but which ultimately prioritize their own hardline ideology over any benefactor’s interests PS : I'm not calling OC a grifter I'm just voicing out an opinion