Trump: "the Soviets were right to invade Afghanistan in 1979"

[steve2470]

Link to tweet

With everything else that he said today, it may not get as much attention, but it still stands out that the president of the United States today said the Soviets were right to invade Afghanistan in 1979. Pretty sure that’s a first for an American leader.

Also here:

Later, in a long riff about Afghanistan, Trump seemed to endorse Moscow’s 1979 invasion of the country — an act that the U.S. viewed as an attempt to spread communism and waged a long, covert operation to combat during the Carter and Reagan administrations.

“The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia,” Trump said, making a case to leave the policing of hot spots in the Mideast and Central Asia to countries in the region. “They were right to be there. The problem is it was a tough fight.”

The Soviet Union eventually was bankrupted by its Afghan war, Trump added. “Russia used to be the Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia, because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan.”

Historians generally agree that the Russian invasion and subsequent occupation of much of Afghanistan was one of several factors that contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union, although the country never went bankrupt.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-meeting-grievances-20190102-story.html

[DinahMoeHum]

1. Words fail me after reading this.

A guy like the late Texas Democratic congressman Charlie Wilson would NEVER have tolerated this crap coming from the likes of Trump. He would have found ways to screw Putin and his oligarchic cronies nine ways from Sunday. . .and have a rollicking good time doing it.

That's him on the right, portrayed by Tom Hanks on the left:

[John Fante]

2. In fairness, Gump has no idea that the 1979 invasion was a proxy battlefield

of the Cold War. He thinks it's related to the War on Terror.

[spanone]

3. every chance he gets, he reminds us he's a russian mole

[dalton99a]

6. +1. Every single chance.

[dalton99a]

4. So it was wrong for the U.S. to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow

Fucking traitor

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Oh, for fuck's sake.

I can't even begin to respond to such stupid.