A Russian Ministry of Defense report states that America have conceded their total defeat in Afghanistan within hours of holding peace talks with the Taliban in the Pakistani capital city of Islamabad. At the same time the West have expressed concern that Russia’s ongoing defeat of ISIS in Syria is likely to have a huge impact on U.S. and Europe’s future for generations to come. The American defeat in Afghanistan mirrors the defeat of the Soviet Union in 1989 when the Afghan war led to the death of 14,453 Russian soldiers, which eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later in 1991. Whatdoesitmean.com reports: Knowing that their war in Afghanistan was unwinnable and that the cost of it was bankrupting their nation, this report continues, the Soviets began implementing their “exit strategy” in 1985 that began with training Afghan government forces to operate on their own, disengaging Soviet troops from combat, gradually drawing down troop levels, beginning peace talks, and, by 1989, completely withdrawing all military forces from the country. The near “mirror like” US war in Afghanistan (2001-2014 and 2015-present), this report notes, has killed 31,458 US coalition forces and wounded 22,773 more and has cost the [...]