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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5283400" data-attributes="member: 48469">Indeed. Because they got curb stomped and they&#039;d had enough.Don&#039;t worry, honey. It can happen for Russia again in Ukraine. <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" data-shortname=":)" />[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.britannica.com/event/Soviet-invasion-of-Afghanistan[/URL]&quot;The war in Afghanistan became a <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quagmire" target="_blank">quagmire</a> for what by the late 1980s was a <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/the-collapse-of-the-Soviet-Union" target="_blank">disintegrating Soviet Union</a>. (The Soviets suffered some 15,000 dead and many more injured.) Despite having failed to <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/implement" target="_blank">implement</a> a sympathetic regime in Afghanistan, in 1988 the Soviet Union signed an accord with the United States, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and agreed to withdraw its troops. The Soviet withdrawal was completed on February 15, 1989&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5283400, member: 48469"] Indeed. Because they got curb stomped and they'd had enough. Don't worry, honey. It can happen for Russia again in Ukraine. :) [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.britannica.com/event/Soviet-invasion-of-Afghanistan[/URL] "The war in Afghanistan became a [URL='https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quagmire']quagmire[/URL] for what by the late 1980s was a [URL='https://www.britannica.com/event/the-collapse-of-the-Soviet-Union']disintegrating Soviet Union[/URL]. (The Soviets suffered some 15,000 dead and many more injured.) Despite having failed to [URL='https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/implement']implement[/URL] a sympathetic regime in Afghanistan, in 1988 the Soviet Union signed an accord with the United States, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and agreed to withdraw its troops. The Soviet withdrawal was completed on February 15, 1989" [/QUOTE]

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