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For the Soviet Union, the intervention proved extraordinarily costly in a number of ways. While the Soviets never released official casualty figures for the war in Afghanistan, U.S. intelligence sources estimated that as many as 15,000 Russian troops died in Afghanistan, and the economic cost to the already struggling Soviet economy ran into billions of dollars. The intervention also strained relations between the Soviet Union and the United States nearly to the breaking point. President Jimmy Carter harshly criticized the Russian action, stalled talks on arms limitations, issued economic sanctions, and even ordered a boycott of the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow.
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I'm going with B as they are funded by taxpayers, some funds come from traffic tickets and such but as with most govt. agencies it is the taxpayer.
It gave more jobs to the people who did have any
Their sea power(Dreadnought) so Britain have a arms race with Germany before the First World War
There were many significant political changes which Diocletian enacted. One important thing which happened was that he divided the Roman empire into two parts. This meant Rome was being effectively taken care of by two different emperors at the time for that reason.