The soviet position on avrane san, from the time of lenin onwards, was that afganistan should be left alone. It's a sovereign state. If they want help from us, we'll give them whatever we can give them. That policy was followed right till this particular day in december 19 december 19 79. They needed allies more than ideological idealogueswo Would try and do this aone tha, there's absolutely no doubt about it. This wasn't soviet imperialism. This wasn’t the soviet searching for a warm water port in blochistean and all the other stuffed licky it was. I mean, they lost