#insurgency

faab64@friendica.hubup.pro

Hillary Clinton with the model for Ukraine: 40 years from now you could look like Afghanistan.

"Remember, the Russians invaded Afghanistan back in 1980," Hillary Clinton says. "It didn't end well for the Russians...but the fact is, that a very motivated, and then funded, and armed insurgency basically drove the Russians out of Afghanistan."

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1498490752065757184

#Ukraine #Russia #HilarClinton #Afghanistan #Politics #War #Insurgency #WTF #UkraineWar #PeaceNow #CeaseFireNOW
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anonymiss@despora.de

How #Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered

source: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/how-donald-rumsfeld-deserves-be-remembered/619334/

He faxed pages from a biography of #CheGuevara to a U.S. Army officer in the region to prove that the growing Iraqi #resistance did not meet the definition of an #insurgency. He dismissed the insurgents as “dead-enders” and humiliated a top general who dared to call them by their true name. He insisted on keeping the number of U.S. troops in Iraq so low that much of the country soon fell to the insurgency. He focused his best effort on winning bureaucratic wars in #Washington.

#military #government #pentagon #war #terror #iraq #Afghanistan #politics #fail #USA #humanrights #history