georgephillip
Senator
Apparently, the CIA and Moscow were surprised by the Hungarian Revolution of 1956:So the invasions of Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afghanistan in 1979 were all the fault of the USA? Putin's invasion of Ukraine was Biden's fault, right?
"Did a US-sponsored group play a part in the revolution?
"From the CS Histories, they did not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Hungary
"'Small psychological warfare and paramilitary units came into being in the early 1950s, (including the Hungarian National Council headed by Bela Varga), and occasional reconnaissance missions took place at that time, the prospects for penetrating into Hungary deteriorated by 1953 when stepped up controls by Hungarian security forces and `the meager talent available' among potential agents made cross-border operations essentially untenable."..'"
Since Czechoslovakia was a very significant supplier of arms and ammunition to the Viet Cong, "the idea of America helping Czechoslovakia reforms was out of question."
https://english.radio.cz/cia-and-czechoslovakia-8737747
Afghanistan was entirely different.
The US armed the most reactionary tribesmen it could find even before the USSR invaded in hopes of giving Moscow its Vietnam moment
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/07/history-trump-cia-was-arming-afghan-rebels-before-soviets-invaded/