In the half of the century, United States and Soviet Union each had internal economies-of-scale, that were far better protected from the destabilizing forces of globalization than American and Chinese economies are now. ..…

More surprisingly, however, if Afghanistan was perceived as an occupied country by the gullible audience of the mainstream media during the years of Soviet occupation from 1979 to 1988, then how did it become an independent state after the American occupation of Afghanistan since..…