I would add that Trump said Soviets were being killed by terrorists - this is true, but was inside Afghanistan itself, not back in Russia In 1978 Soviet-backed groups launched a coup of Afghanistan, leading to the CIA arming groups to counter it The Soviets responded in 1979
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After the Soviets’ 1979 invasion, a large-scale war broke out inside Afghanistan until 1989 Throughout the Cold War both the US and USSR armed and backed various groups inside the Middle East in a proxy war free-for-all of death, oil, and influence
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I spent 15 months in Afghanistan in 2008-2009. The “war”, however it was defined, was unwinnable then, just as it is now. I’m just thankful I didn’t lose any of my Soldiers while there. Not everyone can say the same.
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I hear you. Only you left out the part where to resist the Soviet occupation we armed, funded, and trained the Mujahideen, an obscure Saudi named bin Laden among them. We're still dealing the frightful blowback of that misguided policy.
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What was the alternative? Allow USSR to invade a non-eastern bloc nation unchallenged? It’s not often the world so unanimously agrees on something, but aside from Angola, India and Vietnam, every nation (even communist China) thought the Soviets were illegally invading.
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Afganistan is the Graveyard of Empires - Alexander the Great said even the land fights you. No Empire in history has survived long after invading Afganistan, the place is a bloody meat grinder.
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Hate to say it but a country like that needs a dictatorship in order to establish some structures and safety to their citizens.
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Not to mention some of the so called rebels committed acts of terror against the USA including 9/11. That war changed the course of history
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Thank you for correctly point out that Afghan war was the beginning of the end of USSR
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It really wasn't. The Soviet's military industrial complex (the only true MIC in history) that took up 20%+ of their economy was the driving force. This wasn't just the war either, they used live missiles in missile drills. There was a lot of waste that caused the collapse.
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But got sucked into a lengthy war (