Post your alternative facts as to why the USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1979

by **kingstonlake** Fri Jan 04, 2019 3:21 pm

Since we're just making up history and shitting on our allies soldiers who died to help our efforts.....

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wsj-editorial-shreds-trumps-afghanistan-claims/ar-BBRNFrK?li=BBnb7Kz

In Wednesday’s meeting, Trump made the bizarre claim that in 1979, “the reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia,” positing that the Soviet Union’s involvement in Afghanistan was a major reason for its collapse.

But the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board was especially peeved by Trump’s assertion that Russia was "right to be there"

“We cannot recall a more absurd misstatement of history by an American President,” they wrote.