SUPERpowers?

The Islamists who fought also believed that they were responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union. Osama bin Laden, for example, was asserting the credit for "the collapse of the Soviet Union ... goes to God and the mujahideen in Afghanistan ... the US had no mentionable role," but "collapse made the US more haughty and arrogant."[86] As discussed in 'The power of Nightmares' many neoconservatives in the US also believed that through the US aid to the mujahideen the US had caused the collapse of the USSR.