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Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 3:58am

https://www.counterpunch.org/1998/01/15/how-jimmy-carter-and-i-started-the-mujahideen/

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?

Brzezinski: 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?

Brzezinski: 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.

That’s Mika Brzezinski’s dad in that interview, BTW. US power elites are incredibly inbred.

nimelennar · June 3, 2018, 4:03am

These people are really cartoon-character level of evil.

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 4:27am

(note, not attempting to suggest that this dude is Ukrainian. Just pointing out the internationally used symbols)

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 4:29am

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 4:36am

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 5:20am

@HateClub = Establishment Dem Extremist.

https://twitter.com/woke_creepio/status/1002827166671876096?s=21

https://twitter.com/hateclubformen/status/1002827800364101632?s=21

https://twitter.com/bklounge_tweets/status/1002969075310563328?s=21

AndyHilmer · June 3, 2018, 6:08am

The Illinois ones of those are the worst, … ?

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 6:21am

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 6:43am

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 6:58am

https://twitter.com/soyesperanz/status/1002652067813416960?s=21

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 7:05am

https://twitter.com/surfbordt/status/1003110926839635969?s=21

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 8:07am

Thread:

https://twitter.com/achmatx/status/1002528836104474625?s=21

smulder · June 3, 2018, 8:15am

This “Eric Garland” person is apparently famous for “posting stupid shit on Twitter”?

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 8:54am

He was a prophet of the hashtag resistance in the very early days. See this thread:

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 8:57am

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 9:01am

I have not, in fact, read Hertzerg. But it seems not unlikely.

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 9:16am

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Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 9:31am

Wanderfound · June 3, 2018, 9:49am

Cypher does Churchill:

(animation warning as before)