Originally Posted by TheSquealer

I am well familiar with the history fucktard.

You aren't which is why you are playing semantics with wikipedia quotes and i'm not.

The USA did almost nothing for many years after the Soviets invaded. It began with spotty financial and medical aid, small amounts of small arms (insignificant) and graduated to training Mujahideen by SAS and US Special Forces and it was only in the very end of the war did significant funding and arms start going into Afghanistan by the US and at the end, it was the stingers that changed the war and pushed an already weary and mostly defeated Soviet military out.

This discussion happened within the context of Soviet military ability and how the Afghans were able to stop them. The US only played a significant role in the last year or two of conflict.

My point to you many times is that the Soviets were already bogged down and stalled well before the USA got ACTIVELY involved. My point to you was that the Soviets rolled to take over the nation and were instantly stalled, fighting people with bolt action rifles on horse back. Only later were they supplied with captured AKs/RPGs and ammo and only in small amounts.

The USA wasn't aiding the Mujahideen to help them defeat the Soviets. The USA was aiding the Mujahideen (for years with training, small soviet arms and medical/food) all just enough for years to keep the Soviets locked in a costly stalemate. That was the strategy. It was only the missiles in the end that provided the final blow. Nothing else.

The final Soviet defeat and its timing was about political timing, not tactical opportunity. It marked the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union and their loss of standing in the world as they continued to crumble financially, the berlin wall came down, Gorbechev was overthrown, lithuania et al started to revolt and demand independence etc etc etc etc.