Biden had said before Russia’s attack that he would be sending more U.S. troops to Eastern Europe to defend NATO allies such as Poland but repeatedly stated he would not send U.S. troops into Ukraine. Some countries had already responded to Putin’s actions related to the Donbas, which...
Why did the Taliban attack Pakistan? Why did the War on Terrorism target Afghanistan? Why was the Soviet Union involved in the Korean War? Why did the Russians invade Ukraine? Why did the Soviet Union join the Allies? Why did the Russian Empire become the Soviet Union?
Why did Stalin declare war on Japan? After World War II, why did the USSR want to control countries in Eastern Europe? Why were U.S. troops sent to Russia in 1918? Why did Frederick II of Prussia invade Silesia? Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan? Why did Khrushchev give Crime...
People have worked very hard to rewrite the history of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, but objective historical facts dispute the wishful thinking of the 40th president's admirers. What were some of the bad things that Ronald Reagan did as president?
The invasion of the former USSR in Afghanistan and the rule of Gen. Zia-ul-Haq provided fertile ground for Pakistan to use extremism for putting pressure on neighboring India because of the Kashmir dispute and also to entrench its hegemony and expansionist ideals. ...
The event served as impetus for the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan which continues to present day. It also led directly to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Attempts to cite the attack to precipitate a war with Iran and other members of the so-called “Axis of Evil” (Libya, ...
The Buddhists did not fit into the Yahud-Hunud-Nasara formula. But the Taliban by destroying the Buddha statues at Bamiyan indicated that even Buddhists were against Islam and therefore their symbolic presence in Islamic Afghanistan had to be annihilated.” The textbooks prepared at the instance ...
the discovery of natural forms and of foreshortening, happened at the time which is altogether the most amazing period of human history." This art was later spread far beyond the borders of Greece, when Alexander the Great and later the Romans brought Hellenistic art to Persia, Afghanistan and...
expensive than the last. This particularly affected the USSR, who was experiencing economical trouble at this time. However, it is clear that despite the ongoing Cold War relations between superpowers did improve and this was the main reason that détente developed between the years 1969 and 1979...
Afghanistan, collapsing oil revenues caused by a 1986 US policy of flooding the world market with Saudi oil, the military economy of the USSR was unable to keep pace, short of risking massive civilian unrest across the Warsaw Pact nations. [F. William Engdahl, Full Spectrum Dominance: ...