Thread: Parliament to be recalled re: Taliban in Afghanistan
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Old 17-08-2021, 18:09   #109
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Re: Parliament to be recalled re: Taliban in Afghanistan
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In the days before the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, a group of British defence and security officials took a top-secret trip to Moscow.

The plan was to ask their Russian counterparts for advice on operating in the country given the former Soviet Union's doomed Afghan intervention that ended in defeat in 1989.

The response was brutally prophetic.

One person who was at the meeting recalled: "When the Russians stopped laughing they told us: 'You will make the same bad choice we did, you will go in, you will lose, many of you will die and then you'll be forced to retreat, which will be good for us. How can we help?'"
https://news.sky.com/story/events-in...ussia-12383629
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