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WSLF was a weak insurgency. Mengistu and cubans crushed it.Bring back the WSLF
The Russians, Cubans and others ganging up against WSLF doesn't suggest that it was weak. Mano a mano, WSLF could easily defeat their foes without the involvement of the Soviet.WSLF was a weak insurgency. Mengistu and cubans crushed it.
He's Cuban, let him have it. Poor bastards country is a small island that's only relevance to the world was its close proxmity to the Soviet Union, this is all he has.The Russians, Cubans and others ganging up against WSLF doesn't suggest that it was weak. Mano a mano, WSLF could easily defeat their foes without the involvement of the Soviet.WSLF was a weak insurgency. Mengistu and cubans crushed it.
Cubans have done well in the fields of medicine & sports, for which I admire. What's strange is luis1 run from communist Cuba to Peru, yet relishes Cubans traveling halfway the world to help Ethiopia. Perhaps he's a religious zealot who can't stand his Christian fellows being defeated by Muslims.He's Cuban, let him have it. Poor bastards country is a small island that's only relevance to the world was its close proxmity to the Soviet Union, this is all he has.
The reality is WSLF was crushed by Cuba, Ethiopia and Soviet Union. Nobody can change that fact even Allah can not change that.Mano a mano, WSLF could easily defeat their foes without the involvement of the Soviet.
I am just a man who is proud of his country. We won 1977 war and defeated Somalia. Somali nation and somali people will never forget 1977 defeat.Perhaps he's a religious zealot who can't stand his Christian fellows being defeated by Muslims.
Cuba is a small island, it has no significance to the world in terms of geopolitics, Shipping lanes, population, production, industrial output etc. Industrious people though, I'll give them that.Cubans have done well in the fields of medicine & sports, for which I admire. What's strange is luis1 run from communist Cuba to Peru, yet relishes Cubans traveling halfway the world to help Ethiopia. Perhaps he's a religious zealot who can't stand his Christian fellows being defeated by Muslims.He's Cuban, let him have it. Poor bastards country is a small island that's only relevance to the world was its close proxmity to the Soviet Union, this is all he has.
Cuba is a small island, it has no significance to the world in terms of geopolitics, Shipping lanes, population, production, industrial output etc. Industrious people though, I'll give them that.Cubans have done well in the fields of medicine & sports, for which I admire. What's strange is luis1 run from communist Cuba to Peru, yet relishes Cubans traveling halfway the world to help Ethiopia. Perhaps he's a religious zealot who can't stand his Christian fellows being defeated by Muslims.He's Cuban, let him have it. Poor bastards country is a small island that's only relevance to the world was its close proxmity to the Soviet Union, this is all he has.
Like I said, it's all he has, WSLF was fighting against the second largest military faction consisting of half the planet, and backed by the West too (contrary to what many believe, the West and Soviet Union struck a deal, Christian Ethiopia was to be saved at all costs), in addition to Ethiopia, outnumbered 10 to 1, not bad at all. But poor Luis is proud of it, like Cuba actually did something, let's just let him have it.
The support they received was immense, the Ethiopian air force was also given AIM-9 sidewinder missile technology, which tipped the balance of air superiority in their favour. The Ethiopians got 100,000 tonnes of military equipment, 1000 Soviet advisors on the ground and South Yemeni tank battalions in addition to 17,000 Cuban troops + mechanized units.Cuba is a small island, it has no significance to the world in terms of geopolitics, Shipping lanes, population, production, industrial output etc. Industrious people though, I'll give them that.Cubans have done well in the fields of medicine & sports, for which I admire. What's strange is luis1 run from communist Cuba to Peru, yet relishes Cubans traveling halfway the world to help Ethiopia. Perhaps he's a religious zealot who can't stand his Christian fellows being defeated by Muslims.
Like I said, it's all he has, WSLF was fighting against the second largest military faction consisting of half the planet, and backed by the West too (contrary to what many believe, the West and Soviet Union struck a deal, Christian Ethiopia was to be saved at all costs), in addition to Ethiopia, outnumbered 10 to 1, not bad at all. But poor Luis is proud of it, like Cuba actually did something, let's just let him have it.
Mengistu was at Somalia's mercy and in danger of being toppled. Soviets never intervened in conflicts outiside its neighboring sphere on such a massive and public scale. The Cubans initially struggled to stop the Somali offensive it was USSR's aid that did the trick. Cuban troops continued to stay in Galbeed to prevent a counter attack and keep Mengistu in power.
.All this and they still couldn't take down the Somali army, after withdrawing we managed to retain >60% of our armaments
For the Barre regime, the invasion was perhaps the greatest strategic blunder since independence,and it weakened the military. Almost one-third of the regular SNA soldiers, three-eighths of the armored units and half of the Somali Air Force (SAF) were lost
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