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Question

1. What is the similarity of afghanistan war with cold war? 2. What is the similarity of afghanistan war with cold war?

Answer 1

The Afghanistan war and cold war are similar in that during the Cold War, both the US and the Soviet Union wanted to gain positions in Afghanistan, first through infrastructure investments and then military intervention. Both the Soviet Union and the United States were involved in Afghanistan, namely through infrastructure building.

The consequence of that will be that once the US and the Soviet Union withdraw their influence, Afghanistan falls into a civil war and in that civil war, both al-Qaeda will be born and the Taliban.