barneystinson69 said:
Alright, so you clearly know more than I in case. But when the soviet union collapsed, what do you think would happen to Afganistan? You don't have to guess to realize it would probably result in a civil-war, and likely a coup. Now thats speculation, and that never happened. So I'll take your side in this case, but this was over 30 years ago, so clearly any problems from then have long been gone or have changed. And Afganistan and Iraq don't make up the entire middle east (in fact politically, Afganistan isn't even considered to be part of it). I would blame Iran, Saudi-Arabia, and Turkey for much of the destabilization in the region today. |
Well, the Soviet Union wouldn't have collapsed if Brezhnev wasn't spending an insane amount as he did on the Soviet military. The war in Afghanistan sapped their resources since it just kept dragging on.
the in-fighting by Saudi-Arabia, Iran and Turkey is also a large problem, but the fact is that many politcal ties between them and many NATO members show that these wars are not simply caused by their infighting. For example: the war in Syria spiraled completely out of control when the NATO started intervening, dragging even Russia into the conflict and inflating the death toll even more.
