Washington’s End Game for Ukraine is a New “Charlie Wilson’s War”
The US and the UK have invested billions of dollars over the past 80 years in Ukraine as a covert “battering ram” against Russia. They are not going to give it up.
Ukraine is losing on the battlefield, but the West’s goal remains the same: regime change and economic collapse in Russia. Now the US hopes to achieve their ends with a replay what they did in Soviet Afghanistan.
In the 1980’s the Soviet Union was fighting a counterinsurgency in Afghanistan to defend their Afghan socialist ally, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, against an uprising by Islamic extremists, called Mujahideen, led by Osama bin Laden.
As Former British Foreign secretary, Robin Cook said:
Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan.
The rebellion against the socialist government in Kabul had started years earlier, when religious tribal elements of the Afghan population rose up against the Marxist government in Kabul, which was promoting women’s rights, education for girls…