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Using the Wall Street Journal’s recent scathing editorial as a springboard, Will Bunch considers the Donald’s Trumpeting of Russian propaganda regarding Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. After expressing surprise that Donald Trump was paying attention to international relations at the time, Bunch goes on to add context:

But now here’s where it gets much, much weirder — and much more disturbing. Because it turns out there is one prominent set of voices who — just in the last few months — started making the argument that the USSR was right to send those troops into Afghanistan, an action that even Russian higher-ups have conceded even before the USSR’s 1991 collapse was a horrible mistake, politically and morally.

That would be Vladimir Putin and his allies in the Russian government.

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