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Originally Posted by Guymullins
We South Africans also felt the sharp serpents tooth of American betrayal when the US encouraged us to start war in Angola to curb Cuban and Russian influence there, only to be dropped shortly thereafter when the US withdrew its material and personnell support leaving us to fight the good fight against the Communists.
It didnt end terribly for us. The Berlin Wall fell, the Russians and Cubans went home and Namibia and South Africa transitioned to deeply flawed African democracies instead of disaterous African-Communist dictatorships
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Have you read the books by John Stockwell? In search of enemies and the praetorian guard? He was IIRC the CIA architect of the Angola conflict.....interesting read he wrote these books before the secret agencies had legal abilities to stop former agents from talking about their careers....he was raised in the African continent and once retired is dead against the secret wars
As soldiers we are at the mercy of our politicians and with the modern open source technological era it is much easier to see the deceit and conspiracies....unfortunately it takes life experience to see the bigger picture you can't see as a young trooper.
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Last edited by WarriorDiplomat; 10-17-2019 at 19:54.
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