I did a double take when I read this:
“NATO urged Russia to consider sending equipment and offering training for Afghanistan’s army, to help the alliance hand over more of the war to local forces.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen used the eighth anniversary of the U.S. attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan to float ideas for greater support from Russia, which was bloodied by the Soviet Union’s failed occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
“Russia could provide equipment for the Afghan security forces,” Rasmussen told reporters at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters in Brussels today. “Russia could provide training. We could explore in a joint effort how we could further Russian engagement.”
Given the history, I can’t see any way the Afghan government would be about to accept such help.
And I can’t see Russia being too keen on it, either.
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