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Worse enough but the wording is confusing anyway because the active "bolstering" cannot be a by-product. In fact, the US is the puppet of Israel and Saudi Arabia in the region. There is no advantage the US could gain from what it is doing in the ME."By-product" in this usage means an unintended consequence. Weakening Assad benefited many, including ISIS but it wasn't intended to help them.The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda."
by·prod·uct
ˈbīˌprädəkt/
noun
noun: by-product
an incidental or secondary product made in the manufacture or synthesis of something else.
"zinc is a byproduct of the glazing process"a secondary result, unintended but inevitably produced in doing or producing something else.
"he saw poverty as the byproduct of colonial prosperity"