'If only wishes were fishes'. The prospect of Soviet Russia and Pakistan post 1947 being together is pure fantasy. Yes, if majority of Pakistani's were like me, secular with left leaning tendancies this might have been possible.
A person is known by the company he keeps. Soviet Russia had partners inside Afghanistan and who were they? Westernized secular Afghans of the PDPA.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Democratic_Party_of_Afghanistan
You think for a second Pakistan with it's religion frothing from the mouth and just about everything being explained in referance to 'Muslim' would have got along with a socialist, athiest state? You got to be kidding me?
Elsewhere like Syria, Iraq Soviet Russia allied itself with leftist secular forces. No chance of that in a country which dreams in being citadel of Islam.
And who supported the hardline Islamists in Afghanistan. well the picture below says it all. The mullah and Americans were best friends once.
Lol russia is not a secular state right now, its a traditional christian state now reflecting the principles of the eastern roman empire and by the way we didnt need to turn secular, we broke up their secular ussr to bits and brought them back to religion, russia was not secular, the ussr govt was secular based on marxist ideologies which restricted and persecuted religion in the former ussr by brutak force,
A little knowledge can be more dangerous than no knowledge. Your perfect example of this. Cold War is over. It's been over for 26 years now.
Soviet Russia was a superpower in contest for global dominance against USA. Soviet Russia was Pakistan's neighbour. Narrow 10 miles Wakhan Corridor separated Pakistan from Soviets. Today Russia has shrunk. Central Asia is free. The former might Soviet Navy is now a rusting floating bucket. Russia has no grand strategic need for warm waters as you put it.
Even the original 'warm waters' argument was dubious but today it is a definitely non sequiter.
Lol and when someone pretends he knows something when actually his insight in world geo politics is absolutely bull, its ultra annoying, lets start ur education kid, lets see russia is still a very heavy wieght contender for global dominance, whats changed???, well this time russia isnt alone but is joined by a fairly economically superior power, the red block is forming in the shape of russia and china, russia has its interests in the middleast which it wants to rid of nato dominance, the bear is stretching, the little european states are in danger of getting run over, trump even gave a statement which amounted to america pretty much backing off, lol, he said they would access what contributions the state endangered was making to the nato alliance, we saw a closely related example in crimean crisis where ukarine although not a nato memeber had public guarentees from the us and allies of absolute protection in exchange for nuclear disarment well we all know what happened there dont we??, so china has its problems in aouth china sea and both these giants have decided to be inthe same boat, now lets move on, lol what u r implying is that russia wanted warm waters cause it bordered pakistan??? russian interests in warm waters are not related to pakistan dear, they are directly related to gaining dominance of middleastern oil and controlling its supply, if Us hegemony over saudi etc oil vanishes so does its dominance in asia and the middleast, we saw a while ago that saudi's are moving closer to russia seeing america's betrayal, the even signed some pacts which points towards a shift in traditional geopolitical situation, moreover the trade that goes through china to india to central asian nations to africa amounts to trillions of dollars and russia obviously wants a piece of that, who wouldnt??, they are seeking a route deeper into asia and africa ia cpec, the other plausibke route is the medetranian and no way the west is handing that bucket of water over to russia china without a fight so the bear is looking for other routs to africa, routes that comprise of both a safe protected sea route couoles with a safe passage via land, grow uo, the days of wet people like u jerking off to the west are over, no power lasts forever and Us didnt even last a century, powers that were more powerful and reigned for a much longer time finally vaned away, the islamic and the roman empires are perfect examples of that, no way the russians would ask for cpec unless they really needed it, obviously the have better understanding of the situation than u since they asked for it, dont u think so??, or do u choose to believe that a keyboard fanatic knows more than the kremlin itself??, every nation in the middleeast wants to do away with thier relationshios with the Us cause simply put the yanks are a pretty unreasonable.people and nations here only put up with them cause they didnt have an alternative, but now they do, china russia turkey and pakistan can fullfill the defence needs of every nation in the east and moreover with chinese capital behind this block, billions can be offered in aid to sway countries which if u bothered to follow anything recent, is already happening....
