How did the Soviet-Afghan War impact the Soviet Union, United States and Afghanistan?

The war impacted Soviet politics in four reinforcing ways: (1) Perception effects: it changed the perceptions of leaders about the efficacy of using the military to hold the empire together and to intervene in foreign countries;

apartheid, (afrikaans: “apartness”) policy that governed relations between south africa's white minority and nonwhite majority and sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites. people should not get this wrong. i was just answering a question.

i think it was because of how protected egyptian civilization was was which allowed them to evolve without much outside influence.