Gorbachev, who pulled Soviets from Afghanistan, says U.S. campaign was doomed from start
Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader who oversaw the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Afghanistan in 1989 after Moscow's failed decade-long campaign there, said on Tuesday that NATO's own deployment to the country had been doomed from the start.
Gorbachev, 90, regarded the Soviet presence in Afghanistan as a political mistake that was sapping precious resources at a time when the Soviet Union was living through what turned out to be the twilight of its own existence.
The Soviet-backed authorities in Afghanistan survived for three years after the withdrawal by Moscow of its main forces but never recovered from a Russian decision to cut aid to them after the Soviet collapse in January 1992 and fell later that year.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gorbachev-leader-who-pulled-soviets-afghanistan-says-u-s-campaign-n1276954
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I think he is absolutely right. On a side note, I had a friend in Richmond who was from Kazakhstan. Her brother had been a soldier in Afghanistan and suffered severe PTSD. Little did I know that my son would soon fall prey to the same thing, only from Iraq.
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