What is SO important about Afganistan what does it have that other countries could want ?
2006-09-28 13:39:33 · 6 answers · asked by primamaria04 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Russians thought they could just waltz in and take it.
2006-09-28 13:42:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
My wild theory is that it was the first step (or testing the waters) of(/for) a later-abandoned plan to expand the USSR's domination to Iran and the region (remember, that revolution in Iran has taken place just a few months before the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan).
2006-10-02 13:50:12 · answer #2 · answered by hec 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Soviet Union wanted to take over the world one country at a time. They thought Afghanistan would be an easy target and a gateway to spread communism throughout the middle east.
2006-09-28 20:43:53 · answer #3 · answered by Eric H 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Afganistan doesn't have much, but what it does have is strategic location. Not too many exploitable natural resources, but you can run oil pipelines through it, establish military bases to enforce your whim on the region, things of that nature.
2006-09-28 20:53:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Russia needed a southern (ice free) port to run a oil pipeline to, simple as that. didn't work out.
2006-09-28 20:46:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
oil diamonds and drug market
2006-09-28 20:48:00 · answer #6 · answered by lovephoto 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋