https://www.mintpressnews.com/olympolitik-fake-peng-shuai-sc...
https://www.mintpressnews.com/olympolitik-fake-peng-shuai-sc...
A cursory read through the Mint Press wiki page reveals it's an affiliate channel from Russia Today.
Also nice section around the opacity of their funding and revenue model.
While this does not mean that China would necessarily be any less "evil" than it seems to be, details can rarely be trusted.
Our hope instead was to prolong the war, keeping the Soviets bogged down in Afghanistan. Zbigniew Brzezinski is quite open about this. In the same 1997 interview, he speaks of “drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap.” He claims: “The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: ‘We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War.’”
https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/opinions/commentary/commen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics_boycott
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2021/11/24/heres-the-...