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US exit from Afghanistan offers us poignant lessons

Dr Barrack Muluka, PhD [Politics and International Relations, Leicester, UK]

In the language of the Kenyan newsroom in the 1980s, Afghanistan was where you went when matters in your country were too hot to handle. Active proxy Cold War competitions between the US and the Soviet Union made for good space. 

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