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Greg Forda
Jan 8
American experts are claiming that China is going to fail in Afghanistan. Why do you think that China will succeed or fail?
The US went in with tanks, fighter jets, armored vehicles, bombs and soldiers to kill.
China is going in with cement, steel, drills, hammers, computers and engineers to build.
Here’s a trick question: Who’s going to get your invitation to your country?

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Peter Chan
· January 8
If Western journalists are to answer this question l, they would point out that all the tanks, jets, bombs… are to deliver “freedom and democracy” with hundred thousands of “acceptable collateral” civilian deaths.

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Epstein Lance
· Thu
Please capitalise F and D in freedom and democracy. Those are now proper nouns not just adjectives.

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Loke Seng Onn
· 12h ago
Also put ™ to show these are proprietary US versions, not what ordinary people think they mean.

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Epstein Lance
· 8h ago
Indeed true.

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Allan Kay
· January 8
I think that for the last 20 years, the US has dropped more bombs and brought in more war machines into Afghanistan in terms of total weight than building materials for infrastructure.

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Epstein Lance
· Thu
😂😂

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Zhuzi
· January 8
Great answer! Thank you!

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Birn Ramos
· Thu
The difference between this two..

One is Bomb Bomb Bomb

The other one is Built Built Built..

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David Casey
· Thu
I'm sure the Soviets tried the infrastructure, health and social care and education route and got chased out as well. All the best like, it would be good if you guys can pull it off.

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Greg Forda
· Thu
So David, you’ve never heard of the Soviet invasion on Dec. 24, 1979? I don’t blame you. You’re not alone.

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David Casey
· Thu
I have heard the Soviets invaded yes.

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Greg Forda
· Thu
And you still compared that to the Chinese?

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David Casey
· Thu
Well, the Soviets didn't just invade did they? They were invited, started building things up then got embroiled in the internal conflict?

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Greg Forda
· Thu
Please do some digging on this. I’ll be right here.

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David Casey
· Thu
I can't study up on everything, it's just not possible. This is why I love Quora, people who do know better can tell me. If ice got it wrong then stop teasing me and just say so.

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Greg Forda
· Thu
David, please note that I’ve not in anyway disrespected or teased you. Yes, I was direct but that’s just me being me. Below is the Russian version from Pravda News reporting on what happened on Dec. 1979. The Western version is all over the Internet.

Author`s name Dmitry Sudakov

28.12.2009 09:08

No One Knows Why USSR Started War in Afghanistan

History, traditions

On December 25, 2009 Russia marked 30 years since the beginning of the Soviet military campaign in Afghanistan. Soviet troops crossed the border between the USSR and Afghanistan on December 25, 1979 at about 3:00 p.m. Moscow time. The event marked the beginning of the large-scale military operation the goal of which was a mystery to all. Neither the members of the Communist Party administration, nor Soviet marshals knew exactly why the USSR had to enter the territory of Afghanistan, The Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper wrote.

No One Knows Why USSR Started War in Afghanistan

The Soviet Union lost 15,051 people in total during the years of the Afghan war. Over 250 soldiers and officers are still considered missing. One day of the war supposedly cost the USSR 5 billion rubles, although there is no official information to confirm that. American experts calculated that maintaining only one US soldier in Afghanistan nowadays costs the States $1 million a year.

Many experts say nowadays that the West failed to learn the USSR’s lessons in the Afghan war, claiming that coalition troops may repeat the fate of the Soviet troops in the war-torn country.

Читайте больше на https://english.pravda.ru/history/111437-ussr_afghanistan/