Yep, we backed the Mujahideen against the Russians. I’m sure they didn’t care for the money and weapons we furnished the Afghans. We might have been better off to have minded our own business.
The current game being played goes a lot further back and is way more convoluted than that. The list of game board moves is, um..., lengthy.
And, arguably, began in Iran 1952/53. Korea, Indochina, Nicaragua, Cuba, Zaire, Angola, Chile, Paraguay, Peru,... ... ...
And it's been almost tit for tat in the mid-east and central Asia...
