Jere Van Dyk: A historical perspective of the fight over Afghanistan
Jere Van Dyk is the author of "In Afghanistan" and a former reporter for The New York Times. In the early 1980s he covered the Afghan-Soviet war, living with the Afghan rebels. He received a Pulitzer ...
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Soviet - Afghan War - The USSR's Downfall
The collapse of the Soviet Empire came suddenly, mostly due to the invasion of Afghanistan. Let's talk about that! 19,000,000 people left without electricity after entire country hit by blackout ...
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Is This the Beginning or the End of a New Cold War?
When European Union leaders met in Brussels on February 6th to discuss the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron ...
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In the war’s aftermath, Ukraine will face a new kind of instability
He compared the situation to the 1990s in Russia, when the return of veterans from the Soviet-Afghanistan war fueled violence across the former USSR. Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry pushed back ...
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I. Introduction
Afghanistan has suffered from over two ... the breakup of the Soviet Union, and war in the former Yugoslavia. In the United States, the fall of the Soviet-backed regime in late April 1992 ...
Putin’s war will not end until the Soviet empire is rebuilt
It should be clear to everyone that Putin has no interest in peace, something Sir Keir Starmer reiterated today at the ...