Hell, we got a shitload of dead terrorists for our money. What did Russia get? Let's see:
During the Soviet-Afghan War from 1979 to 1986, the Soviet military spent 18 billion rubles which is about $115 billion in 2019 USD. And they lost. That's alot of money when you consider how small their economy is, compared to ours.
Approximately 2,000,000 civilians were killed, as well as millions of Afghans fleeing the country as refugees...
The total irrecoverable personnel losses of the Soviet Armed Forces, frontier, and internal security troops came to 14,453. Soviet Army formations, units, and HQ elements lost 13,833, KGB sub-units lost 572, MVD formations lost 28, and other ministries and departments lost 20 men. During this period 312 servicemen were missing in action or taken prisoner; 119 were later freed, of whom 97 returned to the USSR and 22 went to other countries.
Of the troops deployed, 53,753 were wounded, injured, or sustained concussion and 415,932 fell sick.
The Russians also lost 451 aircraft (includes 333 helicopters), 147 tanks, 1,314 IFV/APCs, 433 artillery guns and mortars, and 11,369 cargo and fuel tanker trucks.
Soviet–Afghan War - Wikipedia
Not very good numbers for a short 7-year war. I'd say that anytime Russia wants us to teach them how to throw a war party, they should just call us. We'd be more than happy to give them a few pointers.
Wolverines, bitches.