Tuesday, January 29, 2019

White House Memo: Why Did Soviets Invade Afghanistan? Documents Offer History Lesson for Trump

President Trump claimed the Soviet Union went to war in 1979 to battle terrorists. But a newly published cable underscores Moscow’s fear that Afghanistan would switch loyalties to the West.

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