The reason for the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.

The questioner : This is an important point: the reason for the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. Although you may have heard much about it, the primary reason for this matter is that, since the era of Gorbachev in the Soviet Union, they began to look at the escalating internal problems and the defeat of communist ideology in their own backyard. They realized that they had to pay attention to their internal problems, and this could only be done by reducing their involvement in external tensions. How could that be achieved when there was a danger extending to them from the south, a danger that would find resonance with the Islamic states in the south? The reports that were coming to the Soviet Union from Afghanistan— their ambassador in Kabul sent them a message stating that if Russia did not intervene and take Kabul, the fundamentalists would seize power in Kabul. This was during the time of Mohammed Daoud. He had sent them an article stating that if Russia did not come directly and occupy Afghanistan, the fundamentalists would seize power within Afghanistan. In short, the real reason for the invasion of Afghanistan was to prevent the Islamic tide coming from the south, which threatened the separation of the Islamic states and the growth of the feelings of jihad that had begun to spread in those states at that time, in addition to the other benefits that were mentioned, but this was the main reason. A conference was held in the United States called the International Conference on Alternatives to the Afghan Problem in Montreal in the month of December 1983. All those who participated in this international conference, despite being from Western countries, agreed that the real reason for the invasion was the Soviet Union's fear of the spread of the Islamic danger. Before the invasion, as I mentioned, Afghanistan was located within the Cold War zone between the Russians and the Americans, and consequently it was a neglected area; neither side approached it, like a forbidden zone; neither the East nor the West approached it, and consequently it remained in a state of severe backwardness. There is a strategic theory in the United States, formulated by the National Security Advisor Brzezinski, called the Strategic Arc theory, or the Arc of Crisis, or the Iron Belt. They said that there is a group of countries whose shape resembles an arc, extending from Afghanistan to Iraq to Iran to the Levant to the Horn of Africa to Eritrea to Abyssinia, representing the arc. He said this is a hot zone in the world and formulated a theory on this matter, so Afghanistan was part of this hot zone theory. Brezhnev said from his time: "Any state that wants to control a quarter of the world's population and three-quarters of its oil must control the Hindu Kush region," meaning the mountains of Sulayman, referring to Afghanistan. In the phase of invasion and occupation, as I mentioned, the Russians intervened with the aim of preventing the spread of the Islamic tide, as evidenced by the fact that the Soviet Union did not want the Afghan people; it did not want the Afghan people to bring them into communism, as evidenced by the fact that it deliberately displaced the Afghan people and deliberately used planes from the very first moments to carry out heavy bombing to frighten the people and drive them out of their land. If it had wanted the people, it would have preserved the people so they would not migrate, meaning that it wanted the land and did not want the people. I will skip the developments during the sequence of the jihad movement and the many coups to reach the important points we want. The influencing factors.