No, he didn't.
Gorbechev decided to leave.
Planning for the withdrawal of the
Soviet Union (USSR) from Afghanistan began soon after
Mikhail Gorbachev became the
General Secretary of the
Central Committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Understanding that the Soviet Union's troublesome economic and international situation was complicated by its involvement in the Afghan War, Gorbachev "had decided to seek a withdrawal from Afghanistan and had won the support of the
Politburo to do so [by October 1985]"
After the death of
Leonid Brezhnev, the political will for Soviet involvement in Afghanistan dwindled. The level of Soviet forces in the country was not adequate to achieve exhaustive military victory, and could only prevent the allied DRA from losing ground.
The Soviet Union began the gradual process of withdrawal from Afghanistan by instating Muhammed Najibullah Ahmadzai as the General Secretary of the Afghan Communist Party.
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Foreign Policy
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Jan 16, 2019 — Two
U.S. service members and two Department of Defense personnel were
killed in an explosion in
Syria on Wednesday, the
U.S. military ..
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump cast his decision to abandon Kurdish fighters in Syria as fulfilling a campaign promise to withdraw from “endless war” in the Middle East, even as Republican critics and others said he was sacrificing a U.S. ally and undermining American credibility.Oct 8, 2019
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Sep 16, 2020 — President Donald
Trump made one of his most reckless decisions last October, when he tweeted he was ending the U.S. mission in
Syria, to the ...