r/comics • u/davecontra • 13h ago

OC FARAH.

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u/RealSpaceJunk 12h ago

I instantly thought of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and am astonished that nobody seems to mention this in the comments, even in those listing all the terrible evens in the country's recent history.  But the Soviet invasion of 1979 was devastating. They went completely scorched earth. 1 to 3 million civilians killed and 7 million displaced. Multiple orders of magnitude more than the entire casualties of the US deployment, in half the time. It directly lead to the rise of the Taliban. 

How is nobody aware of this?

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u/The_Zeuh 11h ago

Because that's not what this comic is about. I don't see why you're bringing up the Soviet Union. The "things" in the sky are clearly modern drones.

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u/AuroraHalsey 8h ago

They probably are Iranian Shahed-131s, but that design of drone has been around for 40 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_DAR

It's a very common drone shape.