Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that the Ukrainian resistance would make the Mujahideen who fended off the Soviet Union in Afghanistan for a decade 'look tame.'
on Friday. Schumer said that"strong" Ukrainian resistance that he likened to the Afghan insurgency during the 1979-1989 Soviet-Afghan War would eventually make Putin"regret" the invasion.
"Ukrainians know of the viciousness that can occur from Russian intervention from a man like Stalin or a man like Putin, and I believe that their insurgency will be very, very strong," Schumer said, citing a 1930s famine known as the, which led to millions of deaths by starvation in Soviet Ukraine."Putin is just getting a taste of it now. But over a period of time, he is going to regret doing this.
"The Ukrainian resistance, I think, will make the Afghan resistance to Russian intervention look tame," he added."These are proud people ... there is going to be fierce resistance. Putin will come to regret this ... He's a bully. He's a thug. He has a monomaniacal desire to restore the Soviet Empire, but he will ultimately fail."
The Soviet Union faced brutal resistance in Afghanistan from groups of U.S.-funded fighters collectively known as the Mujahideen during almost all of the 1980s. The Soviet-Afghan war about 14,500 Soviet deaths, as well as roughly 90,000 Mujahideen deaths, 18,00 deaths of Afghan soldiers and as many as 1 million civilian deaths.
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