For forty-five years, following the end of WWII, the world was locked into US-led Cold War against Soviet Union.. ... It took thirty years for Soviet Union to amass nuclear arsenal equal to that of the US and the consequence of Cold War was that nations across the world..…
A new, leaner, meaner US military was tooted. It looked like the post-Soviet period, the 1990s, would be a useful “unipolar moment” to proceed with regime change, a blank check after 9/11 to cleanse the world of those evil axis types. . ... It is fitting that the Taliban came to Moscow,..…
Of course Afghan War did not begin in 2001, and began more except with war that saw maybe as many 100,000 dead before Soviets invaded US support to Afghanistan's mujaheddin, the grandfathers of the men we fighting Afghanistan, began six months prior to Soviet invasion. ..…
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