His intent was to deny the position to any future enemies.
First, they wanted economic self-sufficiency, so that no future enemy could manipulate the American economy.
And even, in some strange way, the beginning of friendship, for all that the Rajput lord was his future enemy.
To put it brutally, we paid to train and equip our future enemies.
Why do we go around the globe training our future enemies how better to fight us?
I don't know how much time we have at our disposal, before our future enemy falls upon us.
So our future enemy will seek to fight us on the ground, where we have traditionally been poorly prepared.
"Remember, this will secure me a future enemy, if he succeed in recovering his crown without my assistance."
If approved, we may be furnishing a terrifying weapon to a present or future enemy.
Courtesy cost nothing, but insults might well create future enemies.