"There wasn't a major power supplying the Afghans, they just had the will to fight" is the spiciest take especially in relation to Ukraine and his promotion of weapons shipments there

  • sagarmatha [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Stingers are not high tech since when? they were barely starting production when they gave truckloads to the """"freedom fighters""" of Afghanistan

    • BreadpilledChadwife [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah that’s been pointed out. That’s why I crossed that bit out. I was trying to say that, after the US stopped funding the Mujahideen, their access to modern weaponry would have stopped, which wouldn’t make them comparable to modern “military aid”. But then I realized everyone was just assuming he was talking about the Soviet-Afghan War in the first place, so it wasn’t relevant.