The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a nine-year proxy war during the Cold war involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan against the Afghan Mujahideen guerrilla movement and foreign “Arab–Afghan” volunteers. The Mujahideen received unofficial military and/or financial support from a variety of countries including the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, Israel, Indonesia and China. The US Export-Import Bank is the quintessential example of crony corporatism. The Bank is financed through your taxes and help build the Kama River Complex in the USSR. This truck factory was the largest in … Continue reading Crucial Backstory History You Will Not Be Seeing/Hearing About Afghanistan Duplicity