During the Brezhnev era, communism seemed to be on the march. Communist regimes seized power in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua. 1/ THREAD
Emboldened by these victories, Brezhnev overreached and invaded Afghanistan. We know how that ended. 2/
Before today, Putin -- like Brezhnev -- also seemed on a roll. He launched successful wars in Chechnya 1999, Georgia 2008, Ukraine 2014 & Syria 2015. 3/
Putin horrific invasion of Ukraine, however, looks like overreach, like Brezhnev in Afghanistan. Remember, no one could really understand why Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan, just like Putin in Ukraine today. 4/
Obviously, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a much bigger operation than those previous victories, just like Putin's invasion of Ukraine today. 5/
And the Afghans vowed never to stop fighting, just as Ukrainians are pledging today. Eventually, the Afghans won. Ukrainians will eventually win too. END THREAD 6/
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