In retrospect we should have let Russia do what it wanted in Afghanistan and done what we could have to keep nukes away from Muslim Pakistan
Hind sight being 20/20, I agee.
That, of course, discounts how heavily India was already leaning toward the soviet camp at that time as well. That would be sweet indeed, eh?
The USSR never having been stressed as it was by the Afghan defeat, Afghan, Pakistan and India in the Soviet fold. The USSR with free and easy access to multiple all season ports along the sub continental coast... Yeah. Interesting concept.
Too bad we dont have a real time travel machine so that we can see just how much better the other options would have turned out. After all, in this world, designed as it is in the rock, paper, scissors structures, there’s always a perfect solution to every possible issue and anything that didn’t come out absolutely perfect and pristine must have been a horrible mistake.