The us were not the first to start colonizing and pillaging the third world to rape and pillage resources to feed markets. Sure it will harm a third world country if the goods they are producing are destroyed or appropriated by a rebel group but it will harm the multinational conglomerates who aim to profit off the use of these resources for whatever goods they are going to make or repackage and sell.

Its not so much the US as it is western hegemonic influence and multibillion dollar military industry profiteers pillaging the third world for rare earth minerals, raw metal ore, petroleum, textiles and whatever valuables they can get their hands on.

Are you saying the US iran conflict isn’t directly connected to the zionist regime of israel and all the history of the colonization of Palestine since the signing of the Balfour declaration? Because there was no such thing as islamic extremism before zionist terror groups irgun haganah palmach and lehi waged a 3 decades long campaign of assassinations, bombings, riots and other attacks killing approximately between 5000-8000 Palestinian jews, Christians and muslims as well as american and British expats and british troops occupying british mandate palestine. I mean we can trace this all the way back to the crusades and find WASP ideology as the root and then before then we can go to ancient babylon and egypt to see where the tensions in the fertile crescent came from. But today no other nation state breeds more validated contempt than a fascist ethnostate commiting genocide against a race of humans it deems inferior. This is why the mujahadein funded by the reagan administration to fight the ussr ended up taking their training and money and aiming their ire at the us after the saudis refused to break their ties to the us state whos unholy alliance with israel made them an enemy to arabs since 1948 radicalization and extremism didnt blossom till the conflict with Egypt and it was a result of certain islamic groups reading marxist ideas of resistance and implementing them in their fight against the western world’s domination and support of a criminal zionist state. This is the reality. Youre trying to make this grayer than it is. Its not fully black and white but zionist influence and the unwavering support of zionism by the western banking military profiteering elite sows seeds of discontent and extremism while validating these sentiments. One person has been very concise in their expression of this reality and it was michael scheuyer who was the head of the osama bin laden fbi task force under the bush administration. Islamic extremism(which really is just localized solidarity and resistance towards an evil genocidal ethnostate) would not exist if the us and other western allies didnt give Israel Carte blanche to commit war crimes and genocide in that part of the world. A lot of money has been spent propagandizing americans to believe anything other than the truth. But the reality is that islamic empires have always been able to thrice and accept multiculturalism look at the moors and how their empire across the Iberian peninsula thrived for centuries before the crusades. Most people just believe what American corporatist influence tells them while they have never read the quran or taken time to understand islam/ arab culture. Which is no more violent or misogynistic than judaism. There is very little difference between the two in reality beaides the quran says allah/god created multiple worlds with civilizations on them.