Why would Russia pay Taliban troops to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan? “Russia has never gotten over the humiliation they suffered in Afghanistan,” Nancy Pelosi explains helpfully, “and now they are taking it out on us, our troops.”The speaker of the House has perhaps forgotten that after 9/11 Vladimir Putin supported the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, even allowing NATO to transport equipment to Afghanistan through Russia. Moscow has maintained cordial relations with the Afghan government sponsored by the U.S. It does not want a radical Islamist regime in Kabul; Pelosi indeed refers to...…Why would Russia pay Taliban troops to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan? “Russia has never gotten over the humiliation they suffered in Afghanistan,” Nancy Pelosi explains helpfully, “and now they are taking it out on us, our troops.”The speaker of the House has perhaps forgotten that after 9/11 Vladimir Putin supported the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, even allowing NATO to transport equipment to Afghanistan through Russia. Moscow has maintained cordial relations with the Afghan government sponsored by the U.S. It does not want a radical Islamist regime in Kabul; Pelosi indeed refers to...WW…