Marine 83:

A lot of the anti-Soviet muj’s abandonment issues were a guilt card to play on the Old Central Asia hands. Afghans are good at that. No amount of aid will ever be enough to repay the debt they want us to feel we owe them.

Military defeat in Afghanistan started the crack that shattered the facade of the Soviet Union. That the Soviet Union was bound to crash was suspected by many in the ’80′s, but whether it would crash before bringing much of the world down with it was questionable. The muj helped us. We helped them. We both wanted to kill Russians. Trigger pullers usually get more credit for kills than munitions suppliers.