Conor Tobin’s January 9, 2020Diplomatic History[1]article titled:The Myth of the ‘Afghan Trap’: Zbigniew Brzezinski and Afghanistan[2]attempts to “dismantle the notion that President Jimmy Carter, at the urging of National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, aided the Afghan Mujahedin intention...
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then I would say we failed. And I’d quit. But that’s not going to happen. You’re going to see new faces, new ideas. The government is going to be run by people you have never heard of.”Hamilton Jordan, President Carter’s Chief of Staff...
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First Sino-Japanese War, conflict between Japan and China in 1894–95 that marked the emergence of Japan as a major world power and demonstrated the weakness of the Chinese empire. The war grew out of conflict between the two countries for supremacy in K