How This Subterranean Logistics Base in Afghanistan Bedeviled Soviet Invaders historynet.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from historynet.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Observers have put forward varying explanations suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes, through nuclear threats, to achieve some current or future tactical edge in his face-off with Ukraine and NATO. But none of that reasoning erases a dangerous reality: Any Russian use of tactical nuclear weapons would create unprecedented conditions that could easily lead not to Russia's advantage, but to a wider nuclear war that would decimate Russia and its leadership. Observers have put forward varying explanations suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes, through nuclear threats, to achieve some current or future tactical edge in his face-off with Ukraine and NATO. But none of that reasoning erases a dangerous reality: Any Russian use of tactical nuclear weapons would create unprecedented conditions that could easily lead not to Russia's advantage, but to a wider nuclear war that would decimate Russia and its leadership.
Ukraine vs Afghanistan: the military losses of the USSR in ten years and those of Russia in two outono.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from outono.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Soviet-Afghan War was a conflict that lasted from 1979 to 1989, with the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan to support the communist government in Kabul. The war was a significant event in the Cold War, as it marked the first time the Soviet Union had directly intervened in the affairs of a neighboring state outside […]