The War in Afghanistan and the War on Ter

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The occupation of afghanistan was also supported by china, uran and russia. That's a reflection of quite a different world order then than now. Russia in particular said, if the us. Can exercise its agemony in ther way, we will too. So that is what sarg relations af the russians were no longer the russian were no longer prepared to do the us. Bidding in world politics, which gobachov, and, to an even larger extent, elsen had gone along with.

Legendary socialist scholar Tariq Ali on the long history of Afghanistan: the 19th and early 20th-century wars against the British Empire; the communist coup, Soviet invasion, and US-backed mujahideen war; the rise of the Taliban; and the 2001 US-led NATO invasion through the recent US defeat and withdrawal. Plus, a lot about Pakistan. Pre-order Ali's forthcoming book The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold versobooks.com/books/3939-the-forty-year-war-in-afghanistan Support this podcast at Patreon.com/TheDig and receive our weekly newsletter