[Danidada]

You could also argue that without the US financing the Afghan side in the Soviet-Afghan war and the Iraq side in the Iraq-Iran war then the Taliban wouldn't have taken advantage of the Afghan power vacuum post civil war and that Iraq wouldn't have attacked Kuwait to avoid paying their debts, starting the Gulf War which was the prelude to the Iraq War

[maxwell]

Yeah we definitely got what we paid for with Operation Cyclone. Unclear how things would have unfolded if Soviet expansion hadn't been opposed though.