Colonel Trautman: Yeah, well, there won't be a victory. Every day, your war machines lose ground to a bunch of poorly-armed, poorly-equipped freedom fighters. The fact is that you underestimated your competition. If you'd studied your history, you'd know that these people have never given up to anyone. They'd rather die than be slaves to an invading army. You can't defeat a people like that.
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Yep, Rambo should have just not saved them :)
shareBah ha haaaa. Hollywood should have gone home. It was obviously drunk.
Please do not make negative comments about a film YOU NEVER SAW. It makes you look stupid.
Right, because America has won... Your as stupid as the Russian people in their time.
shareOP, we should've let the russians wipe out a people and expand their area of influence?
we should've not fought a proxy war in afghanistan (which was the preferred method of war back then), especially after the russians did exactly that to the u.s in vietnam? BTW, it was this proxy war that bankrupted the russians and ended that empire without the us having to go toe to toe with them
hahahahahahahah...silly
it is better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have it
<OP, we should've let the russians wipe out a people and expand their area of influence? >
The Soviets (not just 'Russians') never wanted to 'wipe out a people'. Expand their area of influence, sure, but when has the USA not tried to do that? And don't forget Afghanistan was on the USSR's own borders.
<we should've not fought a proxy war in afghanistan (which was the preferred method of war back then), especially after the russians did exactly that to the u.s in vietnam? >
Yes, we should not have fought a proxy war at all, but we ESPECIALLY shouldn't have fought it with a proxy army that had less in common with American and western values than the USSR did!
< BTW, it was this proxy war that bankrupted the russians and ended that empire without the us having to go toe to toe with them >
It was the backwardness of that empire and its economic system that lead to its end. Gorbachev was trying to change that but failed (for a number of reasons, a part of which may have been the Afghan war).
Would I accept a Soviet victory in Afghanistan if it meant preventing 9/11 and reversing the madness of the last decade? HELL YES.
Afghanistan if it meant preventing 9/11 and reversing the madness of the last decade? HELL YES.
Afghanistan if it meant preventing 9/11 and reversing the madness of the last decade? HELL YES.
Welcome to the list of brainwashed idiots.
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The goal of the US was to topple the Taliban regime and capture/kill Osama Bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks. Both goals were met. It was never the goal of the US to "conquer" or "take over" Afghanistan. In a year or so we are leaving the country, on our own free will, not because of a military defeat. You can't compare the US invasion of Afghanistan to Russia's.
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