NY Magazine - In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded neighboring Afghanistan. The American interpretation of this invasion, shared by both parties, is that the Soviets were propping up a faltering communist client state, following the “Brezhnev Doctrine,” which held that any country that had gone socialist could not be allowed to revert. President Trump bizarrely interjected a different interpretation of this episode.
“The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia,” he told reporters today. “They were right to be there. The problem is, it was a tough fight.” And because it was so tough, he explained, the Soviet Union became Russia.
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As most of us know, those terrorists, including Osama bin Laden, were armed and trained by the US. This was the "Afghan Trap" designed by Zbignew Brezhinsky, Carter's National Security Advisor, to ensnare the Soviet union in an enervating military morass. Now, after 40 years, the US is playing "Twister" on a board covered in bear traps of its own making with military engagements all over the globe.
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