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Soul traders or limited company directors in the world. I'm John Bachelor with Anna Borschowskaia.

She at the Washington Institute has a new book,

Putin's war in Syria, Russian foreign policy, and the price of America's

absence.

This is the background to Putin and Obama and Kerry and Lavrov and their counselors entering into an exchange that led to what appeared

to be a cooperation in the Syrian Civil War in 2013, but we're now in December of 1979 and this is critical to

understand how Mr Putin and his Kremlin counselors are going forward in Syria now.

And Ag Afghanistan, December 79, the 103rd Guards Airborne Special Operations,

land in order to protect, we were told, the Soviet regime from terrorists

undermining.

This is critical not only because Soviets will spend years in Afghanistan before the ignominous retreat

similar to what we've witnessed in America, but also because this, I understand from your

reporting, becomes the chrysalis of the Russian allegation that the

United States created al-Qaeda, that the United States is responsible for terrorism. It begins here in Afghanistan, is that correct,

Anna? Right, you know, and two things to point out, two points on this. First, the reason why I talk about Afghanistan is because if you

look at the initial stages of the Russian Syria intervention, many analysts predicted that

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