All those aid items just let them grow the militia, the AKs and 762 are beyond the point really, much easier to get in the region than proper food and medicine....
Sure, we're both in possession of the requisite grey matter and text-readin' to be in agreement. Most rank n' file jackasses (read: general population) really don't get that, though. Like, I feel plenty of people would be scratching their heads wondering "what could a warlord's army need with aid shipments? they need missiles and vehicles!!!", you know? People don't get that non-military aid given to a nation such as Egypt (for kindly not engaging Dear Ally Israel in fistcuffs for some decades i suppose? coups or no, those shekels keep flowing) allows the nation to simply subtract equal funds from social services into military procurement/training/upkeep/etc.
And you're certainly right about Somalia or similar places having much more ubiquitous access to slavshit rifles, IFVs, explosives, etc. God knows that Africa ain't the golden yardstick to apply for human development, stability, chances of not getting fucking necklaced or whatever horrors occur daily, but the US Empire's decades-long presence in Somalia has been a terrorist/militant factory, just like the rest of the hotspots. When you've got military intelligence relying on local barely-vetted sources, of a completely different ethnicity, culture, and language to coordinate both manned and unmanned bombardment, you're gonna end up blasting a lot of the wrong folk. Any fighting-aged male with some fire in him would be very likely indeed to take up arms against the aggressing party when he witnesses his extended family converted into a puree of brain matter, gore, and bone fragments right on front of them. Matters little the culture...although you have particularly stupid examples of attempted occupation like Afghanistan, graveyard of empires. The bonkers-ass Pashtuns there have 11 tenets of society and more than half of them deal with kicking the ass of foreign invaders. Their CODIFIED culture, man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pashtunwalihttps://www.thenation.com/article/cias-secret-sites-somalia/You kill a turrorist, you make 10 fucking more. Its terrorist math, and even fucking McCrystal knew that shit. Foreverwar is profitable to certain individuals and groups, and is useful in grand chessboard antics of the high ruling class.
of course if we dont fight them over here we'll clearly within a decade have multiple daily suicide bombings by hordes of brown folk, newly enabled to high feats of terrorism by not being bombed literally every fucking day
also im sorry i should probably make a thread for my bullshit
