The Minutemen
There's a meme on the internet of a smiling character with sunglasses and a grin, behind him is a wall of text repeating an endless looping phrase " when you fund a terrrorist group to get rid of the terrorist you funded to get rid of the terrorist you funded to get rid of the terrorist you funded to get rid of the terrorist you funded to.... " ad infinitum. Such is the case with proxy wars. When a group doesn't want to get their hands dirty, they arm and train and pay a cadre of killers to kill the group they oppose, but indoctrinating them to their beliefs is usually a tertiary concern in wartime, not to mention almost totally unfeasible. And seeing that they're not looking to pay their pensions once the war's done, there's no "swords-to-plowshares" and they find more war. Not out of bald bloodlust, but now they have the tools to affect meaningful change through the most direct means possible - through violence. Proxy wars and their run-off h...