US foreign policy makes a lot more sense once you look at it through the lens of personal profits. All politicians are for sale, presidents, congress members. It’s a place to enrich oneself at any cost. These people don’t ask for much either - for less than half a billion you can hire the entire US government to do your bidding and reap you many billions in profit.

The goal is never to help the little guy, the every day folk. It’s to make sure they don’t rise up while you steal as much as possible in the process.