Think Donald Trump is too cozy with dictators? Check out the US Military

US military often interferes in local campaign of democracy and bases undemocratic regimes

Much outrage has been expressed in recent weeks over President Donald Trump’s invitation for a White House visit to Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, whose “war on drugs” has led to thousands of extrajudicial killings.

Criticism of Trump was especially intense given his similarly warm public support for other authoritarian rulers, like Egypt’s Abdel Fatah el-Sisi (who visited the Oval Office to much praise only weeks earlier), Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan (who got a congratulatory phone call from President Trump on his recent referendum victory, granting him increasingly unchecked powers), and Thailand’s Prayuth Chan-ocha (who also received a White House