It’s impossible to talk about the Cold War without talking about Afghanistan—something people conveniently forget when they reduce it to just an ideological standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Afghanistan was where the Soviet empire came to die. It was Afghanistan's fighters, not just American policy, that drained Moscow’s resources, shattered its illusion of invincibility, and sped up the collapse of the USSR. And yet, somehow, we’re still treated as footnotes in a history we helped write.
Now, watching Trump cozy up to Putin, I can’t help but think: does he even realise how this story ends? That empires don’t last, that their so-called alliances crumble the moment they stop being useful? America once backed Afghan resistance fighters as part of its Cold War strategy, only to turn its back on us when we were no longer convenient. Ukraine should be taking notes.
And then there’s this absurd reversal—America, once the self-proclaimed defender of democracy, now parroting Russian propaganda, treating Europe like an ideological punching bag instead of an ally.
Afghanistan was where the last Cold War ended. And looking at this mess, I wonder if, once again, it’s where the cracks in a new global order will start to show.
It’s impossible to talk about the Cold War without talking about Afghanistan—something people conveniently forget when they reduce it to just an ideological standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Afghanistan was where the Soviet empire came to die. It was Afghanistan's fighters, not just American policy, that drained Moscow’s resources, shattered its illusion of invincibility, and sped up the collapse of the USSR. And yet, somehow, we’re still treated as footnotes in a history we helped write.
Now, watching Trump cozy up to Putin, I can’t help but think: does he even realise how this story ends? That empires don’t last, that their so-called alliances crumble the moment they stop being useful? America once backed Afghan resistance fighters as part of its Cold War strategy, only to turn its back on us when we were no longer convenient. Ukraine should be taking notes.
And then there’s this absurd reversal—America, once the self-proclaimed defender of democracy, now parroting Russian propaganda, treating Europe like an ideological punching bag instead of an ally.
Afghanistan was where the last Cold War ended. And looking at this mess, I wonder if, once again, it’s where the cracks in a new global order will start to show.
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