Some days you just can't make this stuff up.
'In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded neighboring Afghanistan. The American interpretation of this invasion, shared by both parties, is that the Soviets were propping up a faltering communist client state, following the “Brezhnev Doctrine,” which held that any country that had gone socialist could not be allowed to revert. President Trump bizarrely interjected a different interpretation of this episode.
“The reason Russia was in Afghanistan was because terrorists were going into Russia,” he told reporters today. “They were right to be there. The problem is, it was a tough fight.” And because it was so tough, he explained, the Soviet Union became Russia.'
One has to assume that good buddy Vlad mentioned that particular spin on late-70s Soviet client state support to Donald during some conversation or another, and, since Afghanistan is on Donald's mind these days, he wandered to the topic during his meandering Press Conference "Cabinet Meeting" monologue.
"They were right to be there."
How that fits into Donald's announcement that he's pulling the US out of Afghanistan is … quite the puzzlement.
Trump Defends Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan For Some Reason
Rachel Maddow talked about Donald's, um, odd and inexplicable tendency to raise talking points that seem to come straight out of Russian propaganda, whether it's about Poland invading Belarus, Montenegro being full of shady and violent characters, or, yeah, all those terrorists who were invading the Soviet Russia.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-curiously-well-versed-in-specific-russian-talking-points-1419581507654
Part 2
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-parrots-russian-revisionism-on-soviet-afghanistan-invasion-1419575875862