But Ukraine is losin, they had to fake stories like the ghost of Kiev, bucha, snake island, etc, most idiots just thought war is a video game and Russia should have won day 1 cause call of duty said so

At this point. It's likely that it'll be half the time.

@@frankieseward8667 Ukrainians don’t have the same honor or spirit the afghans do lol, even now, Ukraine is begging 24/7 for food and weapons, without it they’d be completely gone lol

@@michelangelo4483 The Afghans were also armed and trained by the US. The Soviets took control of all the major Afghanistan cities and roads, and it took ten years for rebels to drive away the Soviets. Compare that to Ukraine that only lost one major city (Kherson), by then Ukrainians knew they could win if they had weapons. I'd beg too if that's what it takes to destroy invaders. There's no honor in war. Do everything you can to defend your land. It's idealism that led Russia to just keep on grabbing land.

@@N0noy1989 you keep coping, Ukrainians have been dying by the dozens, even mistaking enemy tanks for their own LOL

So America?

@@kevinboltz6244 "The United States of America." No bragging at all about being "democratic" or representative in that name. Simply an acknowledgement of our federal nature. I've long expected that the liberal/Left will seek to reframe the country's labeling should they gain that full final control. I can totally see them adding "People's Democratic Progressive Republic of..." to the name.

People's republic of china. Democratic people's republic of korea Yes I see your point lol

@@kevinboltz6244 Um no... you seem to have completely missed the point of the comment

@@christopherjones8448 Correct. Look at his channel. He's a total America-hating, White Guilt/CRT-promoting, Antifa/BLM insurrection-backing traitor who missed the "in its name" phrase in my comment.

Guerrilla warfare maybe the usa should use it next time

Was that so hard?

If you check the description there's also video markers. But thanks I guess? Most people probably don't check the description.

I also recommend "Afgantsy". Also a wonderful book.

Do your own research about the so called Israeli art students during 9/11

Look up Christopher Bollyns " 9/11, The Deception " . Absolute page Turner.

America have the mujahideen weapons and money to fight they Soviet’s. They turned their back and slaughtered civilians because a certain someone was jealous that his (Saudi) government liked America more than they liked the mujahideen. Not much else to know about those feral pigs.

That’s wild. What was life like during the war? Were you also there when the Americans came?

@@xinniethep00h Life was very tough growing up there but i left Afghanistan in late 80s before Russians left.

Damn. But at the end Afghanistan got through the Brits, the ruskies, the Americans. Idk how you guys win but you guys always get the invaders out of there.

@@brianticas2068 if there's two people groups u can never ever fully subjugate, its the Afghans and the Vietnamese.... Even Vietnam has a history of failed attempts at trying to subjugate or conquer them... They repelled Chinese invasion at least several times through out their history with Chinese Empires only ever having been able to hold the northern part of country for less than a decade, and in the 20th century alone they overthrew French colonial rule, beat back the Americans and another attempt by China in 1979, the Chinese army couldn't even cross the border

Not Russians!!! 1979 was USSR

An American caused a fuss ,when he found the afghans liked to use young boys as playthings and got told to keep quiet as it was part of the Afghan culture

@@johnmcdonald9295 "Bacha Bazi"... Most of us who were deployed to Afghanistan (at least in the UK AF) recieved very little input on that particular "cultural anomaly". They didn't want us deploying in-country and harbouring preconceptions that literally any of the men we may cpme into contact with (including those serving in the ANA and ANP) could be a child abuser and/or trafficker. It was something we picked up on through witnessing it first hand and listening to the rumours and stories. Some men would proudly admit "women for marriage, boys for pleasure", but amongst many it was an unspoken taboo, especially amongst women and girls. Being a paramedic I found it particularly harrowing (just as I would if it was young girls suffering) because part of our deployment was to provide frontline clinics and pop-up medical triage centres for the local populace. On many occasions we'd have lads no older than ten years of age turning up without parental/guardian supervision, a look of deep shame on there faces, and suffering from some terrible injuries and infections which could only have been inflicted one way. It still haunts me to this day.

Read "American Spartan" by Ann Scott Tyson about SF Major James Gant. There was no braver American couple in that war.

@@spudeleven5124 cool

It's nice when foreign governments arm the men who are killing your friends eh? The US bitches about it happening to us but here we are again arming another army to kill soldiers of a foreign nation

Pakistan sponsored terrorists for way too long and got away with it.

@@CatnamedMittens that's debatable. Pakistani intelligence officers often did not have full awarness of their assets' intentions. ("Assets" being clerics and high-ranking Taliban members.) Moreover, as much as I don't want to hate on my own country, the United States provided Pakistan's intelligence services with too much discretion/oversight over US-provided resources (weapons & money). I am not saying Pakistan-sponsored terrorism does not exist, but it's not solely a problem with the Pakistani' government. The US should have been more assertive about traceability into how its resources were being used, and they should have refused to provide resources in cases where traceability was impossible/unavailable. That being said, as an American, I was outraged to hear that Osama Bin Landen resided in Pakistan for ~5 years prior to his death. However, that can partially be blamed on colonialism, which resulted in the creation of the modern-day Pakistani-Afghan border. Pakistan and Afghanistan were not split by ideological or ethnic lines. Instead, communities were split in half and they did not feel strong political allegiance to their respective sides. It's therefore no wonder that some communities were willing to harbor terrorists within their borders. After all, they likey viewed these people similar to the revolutionary minds that sparked the U.S. Revolutionary War and the French Revolution. Of course, the difference was that those conflicts were clearly against an established government that was detrimental to their people, not against foreign countries who were otherwise minimally involved.

@@SpencerGD The U.S is to blame. The inadvertently funded terrorists and they funded the "wrong side." That being said, Taliban ideologies started in Pakistan and they ultimately spread them.

Weren’t these officers beheaded? And I think they even sent there severed heads to some military outpost?

2 or 3 russian officers in an Afghan city...wow, you've really done your homework there! 😂

You can learn from history until your blue in the face. The issue is whether or not you have the wisdom to apply those lessons to modern times. Too many people either ignore it on purpose or question the veracity of a history book because it doesn’t conform the their beliefs. If simply knowing history was enough then all one would need to do is shout a short and concise history lesson at a dictator before he invaded a country. “What’s that? We lost how many people 100 years ago in a needless war and only survived because the enemy was incompetent and our Allie’s saved us… your quite right. We’ll focus our efforts on more peaceful means then.”

that's why in western europe the left choose to remove history and geography as mandatory subjects in schools

Really? You could of fooled me.

Man has never learned from history, ever.

@@bluesdoggg And thats the sad reality

Just like Ukraine.

Anti-Potato weaponry

Yup! I also noticed that. Sir Simon left that part and barely talked about the US and CIA involvement in the Soviet -Afghan War. US President Ronald Reagan poured billions of dollars to the Afghan resistance, many ending up in the hands of the jihadists including Osama bin laden. Pakistan also played a major role in this conflict

@@armandotalampas4800 Also left out the part where Russia started killing Afghan women and children to try force the Afghan people into submission. Could have also mentioned that all the Afghan refugees (children) who fled to Pakistan is how the Taliban was formed.

@@armandotalampas4800 he didn't?

Same! I learned things about the Vietnam war as specific as the types of traps the north Vietnamese used when I was in school, but learned almost nothing about the soviet-afghan war besides that it was “the Soviets’ Vietnam”

The mention of both Khost and Gardez really hit home because I had been stationed nearby and would normally go through the two cities

The US military did a terrible job on educating people on the history of Afghanistan and Iraq, knowing that history and having a clear exit goal would have helped a hell of a lot.

Caspian report did a very good video discussing the history of Afghanistan from the 1950s to the modern day

@@rejvaik00, it really was a great video, but to me it has always felt like the US forgot history when they went into Afghanistan, and there were only certain times where they remembered it.

@@robertharper3754 mmm

noor!!

the one at 1:37 ? why use a modern map then? the Aral Sea was much larger at the time

Be invaded then counter invade profit

This is still Russia’s strategy today

I guess we copied them and it turned out the same

massoud was an ISI dog, there are thousands of proof that massoud was working for ISI, he even said it himself, it was Najib who Kicked the USSR, massoud was a Tajik national traitor, "Tajik"= ethnicity

British empire was impressive in it's heyday.

@@brianticas2068 Evil and barbaric, more like it. They need to return trillions to India.

@@espn2829a so we're the mongols evil and barbaric as well. I think every empire does what it needs to do to get what they want unfortunately. Every empire is evil.

@@lisov4575 see the problem is Russia had communism and shitty cold weather. So how many people in the world love sharing communism and love the cold. Not that many. Whereas USA and great Britain say there's democracy and that there's capitalism. There you have it. That's one of the reasons why Russia is hated and the west isn't. You get it.?

What happened to you guys? You used to be the beacon and force of democracy and personal freedom.

It was such a shame what the navy did to that man’s name after he died

Like the USA

@@uk6396 The US did learn in the hard way I think Russia will find out in harder way

That's a lesson the US will never learn

That's the entire history of Great Britain summarized

You can't judge by our modern standards

It is what it is.

​@@Calidore1Say that to the country that was left in ruins, easy to find excuses when is not your pain

Honestly this man carried the northern alliance during their fight against the Taliban, if only the USA listened to him when he warned them about Osama bin laden

Indeed

His death in 2001 was the end of any hope for a bright future in Afghanistan.

It is often said that the Soviet-Afghan War was their version of Vietnam for the US. Difference was that the US economy was much bigger and and the Soviet nations were willing to break away given the chance.

Yeah the only way anyone truly ever pacified Afghanistan was through sheer brutality and only one foreign conquerors did that the Mongols They were relentless, often burning entire towns to the ground and worse Implementing the wagon wheel policy Basically any child that was taller than a wagon wheel was killed, the Mongols did this in an effort to prevent acts of revenge from festering in the upcoming generation

It’s really sad to see how most of the population lives. It’s a view into biblical Old Testament times. Yet the radicals have made it their playground. Such a beautiful place, but there’s no hope in recovering the country. They’re set in their ways and preach hate on the western world.

@@rejvaik00 Alexander the Great did that 15 centuries prior to the Mongol invasions. His empire may have broken up but a Greek successor state in Afghanistan survived until the 1st century AD

@@armandotalampas4800 yes that's true but he didn't not do any sort of a brutal massacre campaign but the Mongols did

How about the American-Afghan war?

@@theawesomeman9821 Isn't most of the info on that one still classified? Be hard to give concrete info if it is

@@christopherjones8448 everything should be declassified since the war has been over for several months

@@theawesomeman9821 Nah, as long as enough people who'll look worse if the classified stuff is disclosed are in power, there will be no declassification of information.

The Anglos had their ass handed to them. Fire arms technology completely favored the Afghans in that war.

Sending you love. Thank you for your service. I am a Tajik Afghan and I was born in the US. I always long to just see it once and walk across the earth of Afghanistan in peace… I guess it’s a dream for us all now.

@@BattingMyLashes I hope you're able to fulfill your dream one day 🙏

It was worth it. We are our own people and we don't need anyone else's help. The central banking system and woke politics of degeneracy can burn in hell.

True

@@aryanpashtun416 maybe depends where you are. What part of Afghanistan do you live in? People in the countryside are still poor.

@@matty6848 I'm from Asadabad, Kunar province.

@@aryanpashtun416 Hello fellow Afghan. My family pretty much got deported during the soviet afghan war so we now escaped to the US, what’s the current Afghanistan like?

It is except the Vietcong weren’t terrorists.

@@braxtonjones6163 That's probably debatable, but it is different in that the US were also fighting against an actual nation in North Vietnam

I always saw it like this. The Russians were upset that the US was acting like the sole superpower and decided that they deserved their own Vietnam debacle lol

Was it Revolver Ocelot?

That's a good point. Korean war was able to fight to a standstill because it was short-lived. Actually, America is willing to fight wars. America is not willing to pay for costly occupation.

The only way to win a war against local guerilla fighters is to completely isolate their borders so nothing gets in or out, and then genocide the people in that country and psychologically destroy whatever survivors there are. If you don't have the stomach to commit to genocide then don't bother because all you'll do is give hate-driven motivation to the next generation of children and lead them to be the next people to give you grief.

For the soviets afghanistan was in their backyard, directly on their border actually. A jihadi goverment would be dangerous for their southern republics.

It's moreso the fact that Presidents want to be re-elected so they just pull the plug in a vain attempt to reverse their declining popularity. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.

Not tying the hand of the military is a good start to win wars

Hyper underrated

Al-Qaeda went out of their way to kill him 2 days before attacking the United States because they knew he would have wiped their ass off with direct American support.

Sandy Gall wrote a book about him

The death of Ahmad Shah Massoud the day before 9/11 will go down as one of the biggest tragedies in afghan history. He would have made a great leader of the nation, he was beloved by the people and wasn’t a religious fanatic. I fully believe that had he lived to see America’s invasion, he would have been the nations first president and he would have ensured that mess Afghanistan turned into didn’t happen.

@@Kaiserboo1871 Massoud's son is actually fighting the Taliban at Panjshir as we speak. He has his own army which is still operating even after the US left.

There are plenty of video documentaries about Soviets in Afghanistan.Their operations,life while their there.But most of them in Russian.Prob have subtitles.

There are many good videos about it already

Seriously, dude has like 10 channels

He has 13, sadly I know this cause I'm subscribed to all of them

Don't worry. Simon has a clone for every channel.

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@Jay-T you mean hasn't gotten any better? i guess that english is not your native language (either)

Lies

Not surprising, especially since their leader Putin is a relic of the Cold War.

I mean, firstly it wasn't russians and ure blatantly ignorant of the other races in the ussr. The correct term is soviet. Secondly, after breaking up like that obviously all the former Soviet nations are weak as shit, not a threat to anyone.

Veldig

Living in EastGermeny from 45 on word was hell in it self never mind any thing else.

You born in Russia or Afghanistan?

When does a colony become officially part of a country? What is considered a colony? Is germany,england,france,china,afganistan and so on just a union of colonies?

Don't forget that they had North Korea and Mongolia as outposts.

@@lordquad4604 Colonies are generally far less developed territories which were invaded by significantly different nations (in terms of culture, ethnicity, language etc). Often (but not always) settled and culturally influenced by people of that nation. Germany and Italy for example, which were multiple states until the 1800s, were unions of people who had the same language, heritage/ethnicity, and levels of development. They were part of the same "nation," just not the same country.

And somehow the USSR and, more recently, Russia are considered by many to be anti-imperialist countries. You cannot make it up.

Afghanistan. The land where you can win 100/100 battles but will still lose the war.