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Like the Soviets with communism, US mission to ‘democratize’ Afghanistan failed as it couldn’t impose what it doesn’t have at home

The disaster is already being spun into a rousing tale of special-forces-to-the-rescue – the rights for a future movie titled…

3 years ago

The world’s great powers – like Soviets, Brits & Americans – have been chased out of Afghanistan… so why do outsiders keep trying?

The scene comes from the 2005 film, ‘The Ninth Company’, possibly the most popular film about the bloody and ill-fated…

3 years ago

Soviets worked with West to bring down Nazi legacy – but now NATO expansion risks tearing Europe apart once again, Putin says

Writing in Hamburg’s Die Zeit newspaper on Tuesday, Putin emphasized the role the Soviets played in liberating European nations from…

3 years ago