Original sentence: By 1995 the group had factionalized into the Afghan Northern Alliance still aligned with the US, and the Taliban which became a major threat to the United States
Edited sentence: , the German support for the Bolshevik underground in Russia which led to a Soviet Union and the eventual occupation of East Germany by the Red Army.This connection is ironic, in light of the future turn of events in which many of the same men would end up as a major threat to the United States.This sort of blowback, in which a state helped to create a force to fight another state, only to have that force turn against them, was seen earlier in the 20th century, e