The joke... and a very sick one... is the notion something good will some emerge from that unending quagmire our troops are being forced to slog through.
I would much rather have seen Afghanistan as a Soviet SSR than the irreparable mess it is today.
That is insane, our bringing down the Soviet Empire was a fluke, it took everything that we could do to narrowly pull that off and supporting the Soviet Union in the Afghan war and her strategic goals is insane.
No, Reagan was correct to fight against the Soviet Union, not with them.
America got screwed again, with the U.S. government spending multiple trillions fighting their compassionate wars, thousands of Americans dead....a looted American treasure....We won nothing but a broken bankrupt economy and more foreign policy corruption and chaos.