Jag noterar att krigen i Syrien, Libyen, Jemen och Ukraina inte finns Usa vill ha fn sanktioner mot sudan. The Soviets feared that if that government became fundamentalist this change could spill over into the Soviet Union.
Inin an interview with the Parisian publication Le Novel Observateur, Zbigniew Brzezinski, adviser to President Carteradmitted that he had been responsible for instigating aid to the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan which caused the Soviets to invade.
In his own words:. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the President in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? An indigenous armed struggle against Portuguese rule in Angola began in In an Angolan government was recognized by the U.
Even today this struggle, which has involved many nations at times, continues. However, according to Piero Gleijeses, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University the reverse was true. The Cuban intervention came as a result of a CIA β financed covert invasion via neighboring Zaire and a drive on the Angolan capital by the U.
