BTW, you are not fooling anyone by repeating the Imran-approved talking point about the allegations of backroom deals between the USG and the Pakistani opposition to topple his government.
I was going to say citation needed but then I googled. Astounding. So.... again we're paying for all this insanity. Imagine if we had spent this 18 billion on ourselves. I dare say that would have been better for ourselves as well as for the people of Pakistan and the whole world since these areas we mess with tend to be major exporters of smaller scale terror as well.
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Financial aid to Pakistan since the 11 September 2001 attacks. Between 2002–2011, US Congress approved $18 billion in military and economic aid from the United States. However the Pakistan Treasury only received $8.647 billion in direct financial payments.
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Welcome to what India's trying to tell the US for ages now. I suppose the defense contractors need their money more than fair governments need fair procedures, I suppose. Even if the US wanted to help unconditionally, general (non-military) aid would have at least helped the average citizen of Pakistan somewhat... not weapons.
Maybe you did? What are they buying with that money, or if it's siphoned off where is it sent? Especially military aid, if they don't use it to buy from Russia the money probably goes back to the US, as the nr. one arms exporter by a significant margin (https://www.statista.com/statistics/267131/market-share-of-t...).
With large weapons systems come decades of additional purchases, for training, upgrades, maintenance, spare parts, and an increased chance for buying other systems. That "aid" today can buy a lot of income over time, so rather than aid it actually is a kind of purchase itself.
Googling I see a lot of links telling us how much the US is "giving" in aid. But few of those pages bother mentioning what happens with that money next. "Hoes does the US spend foreign aid" is common (to whom and where does it go), "What does the US buy with foreign aid" is not. How much aid really is free no strings attached? I guess that's most likely for emergency funds after some catastrophe. As I see it, aid more often than not is a purchase too, but few bother finding out what the US purchased. It may be they don't buy anything concrete, but so do businesses investing in PR.
The government was toppled? And you imply this was some sort of military coup. But in reality, the Prime Minister was removed from power, and not through military force. So both your implicit and explicit claims are false.
