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Anyone remember what happened to the USSR after they left Afghanistan.
Vanity | Me

Posted on 08/16/2021 4:35:25 PM PDT by CJ Wolf

Anyone considering this?


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; justsaying; sovietunion; vanity
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I am aghast at our current state of affairs. Many Prayers up for our troops, our citizens and friends.

God bless America 🇺🇸🙏

1 posted on 08/16/2021 4:35:25 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: CJ Wolf

Our socialists are openly hoping for the same outcome here.


2 posted on 08/16/2021 4:37:22 PM PDT by Pollster1 (America is no longer in Claire Wolfe's "awkward stage")
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To: CJ Wolf

The Russian people began to turn heavily against the communists. I hope the same thing happens here.


3 posted on 08/16/2021 4:37:33 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: CJ Wolf

Yes-communism collapsed in the former Soviet Union.


4 posted on 08/16/2021 4:37:54 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.She was, indeed, a hottie… Rest in peace, Joanne.)
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To: CJ Wolf

It’s not for nothing that it’s called the “graveyard of empires.”


5 posted on 08/16/2021 4:38:30 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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You know the US will collapse with a Democrat government in charge


6 posted on 08/16/2021 4:40:41 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: CJ Wolf

(Jeopardy music in background) What is ….. hmmmm


7 posted on 08/16/2021 4:41:00 PM PDT by 11th_VA (America’s Back (leaving in helicopters))
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I think the Soviet Onion fighting Afghanistan led to the collapse of their empire. Lifetime political hacks rose to power but didn’t have a clue how to think or lead.

Do I have to spell out the obvious?


8 posted on 08/16/2021 4:41:38 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: irishjuggler

In the immortal words of Arnold Schwarzenegger, we’ll “be back.”


9 posted on 08/16/2021 4:43:08 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: CJ Wolf
The Russians were forced out, we left on our own.

With that said we need to seriously consider wiping out the region or taking control off the entire middle east for the next century if we are to save western civilization from mainstream Islam.

10 posted on 08/16/2021 4:43:59 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !)
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To: CJ Wolf

I thought of this today, and then I recalled a collapse also happened to Great Britain after they meddled in Afghanistan twice.


11 posted on 08/16/2021 4:46:23 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: SecondAmendment

Forced out versus left on our own?

Wow, that’s a really funny line!

Don’t forget the /s or people will think you are serious!!


12 posted on 08/16/2021 4:47:01 PM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: CJ Wolf

United States has too many outlets of “bread and circuses”/mortgages/retirement accounts to distract from. Afghan is a non sequitur in terms of a “kill shot” of democrats. Economy is a different story which is more of a connection to the USSR.


13 posted on 08/16/2021 4:48:28 PM PDT by rollo tomasi
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I think there is a decent chance that the US will break into smaller pieces. But I don’t see Afghanistan being a catalyst for that. We’re just heading there anyway.

But I do see this pattern:
USSR went to Afghanistan, had a heavy hand, the UN and everybody made some noise, but allowed the Soviets to do their thing. But they failed and ran away.

USA went to Afghanistan, spent 20 years trying to re-shape it and not everybody thought it was OK, but they let us do our thing. But we failed and ran away.

Watch China. They will move in, and they won’t mess around. Remember the Uighurs? China will have a heavy hand, they will settle that place down, move about a million people into the country and really transform it. And what will the world say? It’s OK for Russia? It’s OK for America? But China better knock it off? No. China will have a very free hand in Afghanistan, and they will have more luck than anyone else.


14 posted on 08/16/2021 4:49:55 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We have two Democrat parties. 50% of the US population has no political representation.)
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Afghanistan: The rock that breaks every country that tries to conquer it.


15 posted on 08/16/2021 4:49:59 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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How many neutron bombs would it take to do a complete restart?


16 posted on 08/16/2021 4:51:53 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: CJ Wolf

The French were in VietNam for a long time and we then took their place.


17 posted on 08/16/2021 4:53:10 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: OrangeHoof

The Soviets left the ‘stan in Feb, 1989. The Soviet was in ruin by then....

The Soviet fully collapsed in spurts from 1988 thru 1991.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Soviet_Union

You could say the Afghan invasion was the last gasp of a failing/failed state


18 posted on 08/16/2021 4:53:45 PM PDT by ASOC (This space for rent)
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I hope that both Neoconservatism and Wokeness collapse.

Wokeness is the best term I can conceive for the Left's ruling ideology. It's not really Communism or Socialism, not in any classical Old Left sense. They're no longer into class warfare. The modern Left openly hates the white working class. And they have many wealthy supporters in Big Tech, Big Finance, Big Media, Big Pharma, etc.

The modern Wokeness ideology is Anti-White, Anti-Christian, and Anti-Straight. With a strong disdain for the working class.

They and the Neocons are both part of the Globalist Establishment. I hope they collapse with Afghanistan.

19 posted on 08/16/2021 4:57:14 PM PDT by Angelino97
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>Don’t forget the /s or people will think you are serious!!

I don't understand why you think this is funny. Too many Americans were killed or maimed due to the utter duplicity and incompetence of the Bush through the Biden administration's foolishness and refusal to fight a war as a war.

At least President Trump had the courage to call them out on this.

Yes with out question we left on our own due to political incompetence and corruption, not military weakness or inability, period.

20 posted on 08/16/2021 5:02:00 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !)
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