>>763472>Brezhnev Invaded>invadedTaraki asked him 3 times to help and he only acquiesced upon the third request, by which point Taraki was already being assassinated by Hafizullah Amin, and the CIA-armed mujahideen, forerunners of the Taliban, were already making short work of the Socialist government in Kabul. Do not compare
requested Soviet
intervention in
response to CIA shenanigans with
unprovoked American aggression in the middle east. Literally both situations you are "comparing" were America's fault.