In order to thwart the soviet progress in the region the taliban was supplied with weapons AND training by the USA
Correct, sir. Same as USSR supplied Vietkong during the Vietnam war.
Those were proxy wars.... bigger and smaller conflicts fought all over the world between USA and USSR and their satellite states on soil of some third party.
List of crisis they were somehow participants, from wikipedia
Cold War
Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
Malaysian Emergency, 1948–1960
Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948–Present
Korean War, 1950–1953
Suez Crisis, 1956–1957
Cuban Revolution, 1953–1959
1959 Tibetan uprising, 1959–1973
Laotian Civil War, 1953–1975
Vietnam War, 1957–1975
Guatemalan Civil War, 1960–1996
Congo Crisis, 1960–1965
Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Angolan Civil War, 1974–2002
Ogaden War, 1977–1978
Afghan-Soviet War, 1979–1989
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979
Iran-Iraq war, 1980–1988
Invasion of Grenada, 1983
Nicaraguan Civil War, 1979–1990
Salvadoran Civil War, 1980–1992
All I can say is we live in very boring world today.
There's some trying in Syria but it's pretty lame.... Russians even froze their delivery of Yak's under pressure from "international community", though other deliveries keep flowing
There's no more ideology to fight for.......
Fuk that liberal shit - Iron to borders and beyond !!