By land line phone from the oval office
Paris Peace Talks – North Vietnam
The Soviet Union supported the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) under Ho Chi Minh.
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Nikita Khrushchev
The former Soviet Union expended funds on military hardware with or without Vietnam. The ONLY difference was; the Vietnam ordnance was USED (consumed); after the Vietnam War, the Soviet ordnance (that was never used) had to be destroyed...as they were in the US.
Afghanistan
Nixon's diplomacy with China is an example of Realpolitick. Though Nixon disagreed with the communist ideology, he still worked with China to pragmatically develop a beneficial relationship.
The Soviet Union (USSR) supplied North Vietnam, and the US fought for South Vietnam.
The phrase is simply used to show that just as the American's suffered devastating losses in Vietnam, the Soviet Union had crushing losses in Afghanistan.
With a little bit of diplomacy and a whole lot of propaganda.
R. P. Browder has written: 'The origins of Soviet-American diplomacy'
Both the Soviet Union and China supplied armaments to North Vietnam.