Afghan Officials Dispute Trump's View Of Soviet Occupation

[Rogue Valley]

'Right To Be There'? Afghan Officials, Observers Dispute Trump's View Of Soviet Occupation

Trump Cabinet meeting on 3 January 2019.

1/3/19
U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that the Soviet Union was in the "right" when it occupied Afghanistan for nearly a decade did not go down well with many Afghans, and his take on Moscow's justification for invading the country was also questioned. Trump made the controversial comments during a January 2 cabinet meeting in which he argued against the long-term presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. He said Moscow's involvement in the nine-year Soviet-Afghan war led to the bankruptcy and dissolution of the Soviet Union and called on other countries in the region to join the fight against extremists in Afghanistan. "Russia used to be the Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan," Trump said. "The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia. They were right to be there."

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Another of Trumps infamous "alternative truths" that demands correction.

Related: Why Trump's Afghan comments are bad history

 

[Mach]

But like discussed in the other thread touching on this, WHERE did he get the crazy lie? No one in the U.S. is pushing those lies.
It seems, according to some journalism, that those lies are only found in one place...Russian state propaganda.