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You're seriously bringing on Afghanistan as an example here? Because the Soviet Union has completely clean hands here...? And no, the United States is not perf
by arp242 2y ago
You're seriously bringing on Afghanistan as an example here? Because the Soviet Union has completely clean hands here...?
And no, the United States is not perfect. No country with that amount of power is. But for all its flaws, it's vastly better than the Soviet Union ever was, but for the people living there and internationally.
This is the old "the United States is horrible and has done terrible thing, so let's for a country that ... has done even worse and is completely unrepentant about it". Like, wut?
- tehjoker 2y agoMy point was that the US went on and on with operation cyclone as it tried to turn Afghanistan into the Soviet Union's Vietnam and then did it to ourselves a few decades later. Incredible self-own.
- pqtyw 2y agoUnlike the Soviets US didn't try to impose a "colonial" style administration in Afghanistan. They had no long-term plan and the local Afghan government they were propping up was exceptionally corrupt and incompetent. Militarily US didn't much better than the Soviets and could've won relatively easily if they used similar methods and comparable goals.