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2019-01-31 Afghanistan

Trump's Withdrawals From Afghanistan and Syria Are Hardly ‘A Gift to Putin'

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-31 08:19|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 An 'endless wars' hand-off, where is the downside ?

Posted by Besoeker 2019-01-31 08:22|| 2019-01-31 08:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Gift to Putin? Hardly. The Soviets were in an Afghan war before the U.S. for nearly 10 years and it didn't go so well.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-01-31 08:43|| 2019-01-31 08:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Taking the pressure off the drug merchants isn't going to help the social stability back in Russia.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-31 09:58|| 2019-01-31 09:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually it is - now Russians will be able to plan what to do about the poppy fields without worrying if the owner is "friend of USA".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-01-31 11:06|| 2019-01-31 11:06|| Front Page Top

#5 ..given all their 'off the books' biowarfare stuff, you'd think the Russkies would have come up with an 'opium rust' to kill it off.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-01-31 11:23|| 2019-01-31 11:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Money laundering works both ways. Too many people in Washington, London and Moscow make money off opium for it to ever go away.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-01-31 11:33|| 2019-01-31 11:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Pulling western witnesses out of the war zone sort of frees Putin do what Putin wants to do. Getting folks that fight back with B-52s and Arclights and a stack of F18 Superhornets out of the line of fire is probably also something Putin would like.

Posted by ruprecht 2019-01-31 18:59|| 2019-01-31 18:59|| Front Page Top

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