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I mean, is that not par for the course for superpowers, historically? The US just has a wider area that it can reach in that regard, due to better technology of the current era
Small countries still need supermarkets to buy weapons from to fight each other. It's an inevitability that sides get chosen because selling weapons to both sides looks particularly bad.