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| USA lures another country into Afghan trap - Pravda | |
| 2011-01-03 | |
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| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 The Prava writer sounds like he has a mouth full of something awful, and no place to spit. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-03 17:51 |
| #6 There's both oil and natural gas in Afghanistan. They apparently just never bothered looking. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-01-03 16:21 |
| #5 Afghanistan isn't and was never much of a "trap". The Russians withdrew for a combination of reasons: (1) the Soviet economy had weakened sufficiently from 6 decades of communist rule that even a small-scale guerrilla war like Afghanistan had left it winded and (2) there's not much in Afghanistan worth conquering, whereas if oil had been discovered there, Afghanistan would probably have been annexed to the Soviet Union, and the population massacred a la the Ukraine's Holodomor. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-01-03 15:12 |
| #4 Russia usually has its own traps for countries seen as being within its sphere of influence. |
| Posted by: ryuge 2011-01-03 14:11 |
| #3 Kazakh military advisors,eh ? Question - who is going to be advised by them? Do not forget that Kazakhstan is a muslim country and a proud member of Organization of Islamic Conference. |
| Posted by: vendaval 2011-01-03 13:29 |
| #2 Looks like the Russians don't believe that it can be done. They killed everything that moved and they still got their butts handed to them. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-01-03 10:15 |
| #1 Funny, are you sure that article isn't from the New York Times? |
| Posted by: Mikey Hunt 2011-01-03 10:04 |