edit: at the same time, in the same conflict.
I remember reading a few years ago about a conflict in (I want to say) 1980’s Latin America where this occurred; however I can’t find anything about this with current online search tools. Did I hallucinate this or did this actually, and if so what groups?
there were times where the US funded groups that were leftists as means of countering, to their perception at the time, even more radical communists.
it was more in the way of ‘enemy of my enemy, might still be an enemy, but they’re not the current problem’ than anything else. I don’t think it ever ended the way we wanted it to, or the way that it should have.
As an example, we funded FSLN against the Samoza family, in Nicaragua. we also supported the Derg- an ML military junta- in ethiopia against the Eritrean independence peeps (who were at the time even more communist.
Keeping in mind the Ethiopian junta was also waging genocide against the Eritreans.
oh. Yeah. Apologies if you thought I was saying we were backing the good guys.
we just backing the assholes killing the assholes we had a problem with at the time.
What could go wrong, amirite?