Interesting comment about the King.
Elsewhere Vlad gets the jitters?
During the main phase of the joint exercise, the army aviation crews will land a tactical assault force and provide air support for the advancing troops in the course of eliminating an outlawed armed gang
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Russia’s not worried about the TB. They’re worried about refugees fleeing into their sphere of influence.
Afghan refugees, as with any other refugee are a great source of cheap Labour if you want sewers cleaned with toothbrushes or something equally nasty. But they’re also massively destabilising.
stopping the return of its refugees has been used by Afghanistan against its neighbours for added political pressure. Forcibly removing refugees and making them return has been used by its neighbours for added political pressure.
You think host nations cate about Palestinians? They’re seen as sub humans in places like Jordan and Egypt because they cause so much trouble.
neither do country’s want a religious country on the border of their sphere of influence where they’ve tried their utmost to downplay the religious crazies
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan wasn't a land grab. It was a follow on from the Iranian Islamic revolution in 79. Ten religious crazies kicked off in Herat and stared killing Soviet advisors who wanted a stable, secularish Afghanistan on their borders.
theu went in to stop the religious crazies from gaining a foot hold.
unfortunately, because the US lost all their Iranian based SIGINT sites when the shah fell, once again, US J2 put 2 and 2 together and came up with 5 and thought the Soviets wanted to secure a nice warm water port called Karachi.
The you’d got the ‘let’s pay them back for Vietnam’ brigade.
sadly, Afghanistan’s history is full of what can only be described as retarded outsiders trying to bring the Afghans to heel.
in the good old days, we’d March in. Have a fight. Give them a bag of cash and tell them to wind their necks in.