Reading the history of the Soviet Union recently, I inadvertently found an interesting point, that is, there are many similarities between the contemporary United States and the late Soviet Union.
Many people may think that I first presuppose a premise, and then far-fetched to find common ground, but really not, what I want to say next, are all real history, and are all well-known and uncontroversial character information or historical events.
The first thing the United States and the Soviet Union had in common was the failure of the invasion of Afghanistan. I should say this without subjective feelings, right?
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is one of the biggest news stories in the world in those two years. There may be a lot of controversy about the cause and effect of this incident, but there is no dispute that the US military operation in Afghanistan ended in failure. The simplest fact is that the United States spent 20 years, spent 2 trillion (or dollars), and the Afghan regime changed from the Taliban back to the Taliban, this cannot be said to be a success, right?
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which began in 1979 and ended in 1989, lasted for a decade. Some people say that the United States helped liberate women in Afghanistan, but in fact, the Soviet Union did the same thing, and did it more seriously than the United States. The United States only supported a cabinet, while the Soviet Union even sent its own cadres to the grassroots level in Afghanistan to help women fight for their rights. Many Soviet cadres were killed in Afghanistan. When Soviet troops withdrew in 1989, it was also called "peaceful evacuation". So I say that the Soviet Union and the United States suffered very similarly on the Afghan issue.
The second similarity between the United States and the Soviet Union is that elderly leaders are questioned by the media for abnormal behavior as Alzheimer's.
US President Joe Biden was elected president at the age of 79, even among the presidents of various countries. He also often broke out "supernatural behaviors", such as in April this year, Biden went to the North Carolina State Agricultural and Technical University to give a speech, after the speech, he actually struck a handshake posture into the air, and then turned his back to the audience, as if he was in a trance for a while before slowly leaving the podium. Many Americans have questioned his Alzheimer's disease, including a White House doctor.
So how could there be such a person in the USSR? There really is, it is Bonezhnev. First of all, I must admit that compared with Biden, Bonezhnev can be said to be not an advanced age, but his strange behavior is not far behind. For example, when he visited Poland, he heard the Polish national anthem and suddenly waved his hands like the conductor of the orchestra. While talking with French President Testan at the same time, he suddenly turned away and walked to the door only to say that he was tired and wanted to rest. I went to Azerbaijan to give a speech, got the wrong manuscript, and read it for a long time without noticing.
The last similarity between the United States and the Soviet Union is that they suddenly stepped up their confrontation with China after seeing it become stronger.
I don't need to say more about that. In the past two years, we have been immersed in the "sanctions news" of the United States, and we all thought that the world was like this. In fact, no, even if it is only pushed forward for five years, Sino-US relations are still normal, and the United States suddenly increased sanctions against China. Huawei is just a façade. The Soviet Union also had normal relations with China for a long time, but suddenly, the Soviet Union began to increase its confrontation with China. It was the same Bnezhnev above, who even used nuclear deterrence.
If you start with nuclear deterrence, the USSR will last for a maximum of 32 years. You know, the Soviet Union was a role that even the United States feared.