From Indian Punchline
MK Bhadrakumar
"The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s exclusive interview to the Afghan channel TOLO (which was telecast on Sunday evening) will be carefully analysed in the world chancelleries — both in terms of its content and timing. Russian thinking on the Afghan situation is multi-dimensional.
In a manner of speaking, it mixes memory with pleasure, since the United States is in a somewhat comparable situation to what the former Soviet Union faced in the latter half of the 1980s. The major difference is that Moscow is not inflicting any pain on the US in retaliation for what Washington did to bleed the Red Army during the Afghan jihad. But all the same, it is only human if some people in Moscow are smiling at the quirks of fate."
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