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mahatmakanejeeves

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Thu Mar 17, 2022, 01:32 PM Mar 2022

Ukraine Could Become The Far Right's Afghanistan [View all]

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“Much like the Islamists who traveled to Afghanistan in the 1980s to wage jihad and later became the vanguard of global Islamist terrorism, present-day Ukraine could have the same mobilizing effect for the global far right.” My latest at
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Ukraine Could Become The Far Right’s Afghanistan
In sending arms to Ukraine, the West seems to have forgotten the lesson from Afghanistan: that supporting insurgencies can later have unpredictable and
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