1980s Afghan war

 1980s Afghan war (war)

Soviet troops return after the end of the war
Date	24 December 1979 - 15 February 1989
Location	Afghanistan
Participants	CIA, KGB, Soviet Union, US, Afghanistan, Taliban, Al-Qaeda
Description	Another episode of the Soviet Union and US imploding a third world country from inside by fuelling a civil war with weapon smuggling. Afghanistan has yet to recover.

The 1980 Afghan War, also known as the Soviet-Afghan War, was a war with many effects on the long term which outlived the Cold war it was originally and officially fought for. Fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. An estimated 520000 at least were killed, with high numbers going up to 2 million.

Official Narrative

At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. This event began a brutal, decade-long attempt by Moscow to subdue the Afghan civil war and maintain a friendly and socialist government on its border.

Presented as extend of the Cold War, marking the only time the Soviet Union invaded a country outside the Eastern Bloc—a strategic decision that was presented as a "shock" in western CCM. Called an extension of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which held that once a country became socialist Moscow would never permit it to return to the capitalist camp. The United States and its European allies, now had a reason to follow the country into Afghanistan by "containment".

Operation Cyclone

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Operation cyclone was an enormous CIA-led effort to fund and supply the Mujaheddin. The CIA later started Operation MIAS to get the supplied stinger missiles back, which were thought to enter the black market and be used in other conflicts around the world.

MIAS

Operation MIAS failed to buy back some weapons, and acted quite late in 1989. The decision of the CIA to route U.S. aid through Pakistan led to massive fraud as weapons sent to Karachi were frequently sold on the local market rather than delivered to the Afghan rebels. Soon, papers like the Chicago Tribune reported how local militia chiefs used weapons as gang members for all their private wars. Local elders - even religious ones - readily agreed to procure a Stinger within days or even a Soviet-made Scud missile if the client paid up front.

At a certain point the US was running special army units to confiscate weapons throughout the Afghan villages. Many village elders refused as the stingers were "status symbols", with the security chief of Kabul and commander of the once powerful Hizb-I-Islami in the late 1980s crying for help as he feared young people would turn the weapons into people magnets for training grounds for suicide bombers and terrorists. Haq already had warned Iranian CIA-backed militias were one of the early one who had the money to convince the elders to buy dozens of stingers.

Recent mentions

Hannity brags about Iran-Contra and Operation Cyclone and compared Trump to Reagan - Fox News

Sean Hannity on FOX News came with a rare exposure and obfuscation of the suffering caused of the CIA in 2022 during the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine arguing for a new black project involving clandestine weapon smuggling.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Graham E. Fuller	“The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvellously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia”	Graham E. Fuller	2005

 

Known Participants

4 of the 8 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Afghanistan	"The graveyard of empires" - Afghanistan has a reputation for undoing ambitious military ventures and humiliating would-be aggressors.
Al-Qaeda	A sketchy term that has been repeated endlessly by the corporate media. Its close connections to Western intelligence agencies are never examined. "The Brotherhood" of the modern era.
CIA	The most high profile of the US intelligence agencies, a covert agent of foreign policy. Funded by a 'black budget' derived from the global drug trade, the CIA is experienced at assassination, blackmail, instigating coups and other such covert deep state actions. Its scrutiny in the early 1970s however led to the development of more secure bases for the most sensitive deep state operations.
US	The United States is the single biggest military spender in the world, with a higher 2020 expenditure than the next ten countries combined. Its infrastructure has been described to be in disrepair since the late 1980s.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Afghanistan 1979-1992	book extract	2003	William Blum

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