History Repeats- Will Afghanistan repeat in the Ukraine?

History repeats, because we (society) don't know any real history.We learn whitewashed, sanitized, dumbed down  versions of 'truthiness'  We have no real concept of  specific actions taken, actions that were intended to start wars. Destroy nations. What ever the case may be?  For example, CIA backed Islamic mercs were employed in Afghanistan  in the late '70's in order to provoke a response from the Soviet Union. How many people are aware of that fact? How many believe the state approved version of events? That it was an unjustified invasion. And, could we see a scenario playing out in Ukraine that would look very familiar to the events that took place when the CIA intervened in Afghanistan?

 The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan

Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser

Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998
Posted at globalresearch.ca 15 October 2001

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Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct? 

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it? 

B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today? 

B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.

B: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.

Translated from the French by Bill Blum

Brzezinski is correct. There is no global Islam. Only the spectre of one.
As for Ukraine. A nation divided. Already impoverished. It is ripe for the picking -apart.
Instead of  "some stirred up Moslems" - created and nurtured by NATO,  we have another fighting force of western nurtured  fascists thugs. Gladio style (A)? Or a  Gladio B?  Doesn't matter?
It would seem those two have co-mingled In the Ukraine. And Chechnya.

Would the western backed thugs be willing to spend months poking away at Russia?

Also

Their was an absolutely useless vote at the UN declaring the Crimean referendum illegal. As if ?
It is a non-binding resolution, purely nonsensical exercise in PR. Expect the news to rehash this psyop all weekend.

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