Russian leader Vladimir Putin was just reelected in a sham election, adding six more years to his 25-year reign -- from 1999 to 2024 -- of power.
was just reelected in a sham election, adding six more years to his 25-year reign — from 1999 to 2024 — of power.invaded Afghanistan, the beginning of a bloody 10-year war with enormous casualties. In November 1986, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev decided to withdraw all Soviet combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 1988, publicly stating that Afghanistan had become “a bleeding wound.
What followed was the speed with which China and the U.S. normalized relations. Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong approached the U.S., convinced that enlisting a faraway enemy against a nearby enemy was the best strategy for dealing with the, to China. In February 1972, during Nixon’s visit to China, China and the U.S. agreed to a Shanghai Communique that committed the U.S. and China to work toward the normalization of relations.
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