>Afghanistan is where empires go to die.
True statement?
Seems that way.
>>73023414
No, just US soldiers.
>>73023414
Yet the more intriguing question is why empires keep returning there.
except for the le mongols xDDDDDD
>>73023414
>British Empire
>Aztec Empire
>French Empire
No.
>>73023414
I knew 2 afghan sisters in my neighborhood, one became a top escort now dating a nigger. In 2012, I went to a strip club and saw her dancing there, she looked away obviously because she was "ashamed". Anyways fast forward 1 year later she had implants and was dating a nigger whoring herself out in Toronto.
Her younger sister also got implants but for her ass. She's a stripper only though.
>>73023550
i don't know, those pashtuns still look pretty greek senpai
>>73023645
But the Brits did go there.
And they are dead.
>>73023414
What empires went there and died?
>>73024042
British, urss and usa
>>73024234
But USA Repbulic is still alive and well
>>73023414
Would it be possible to conquer Afghanistan if one where to go full genocide mode like destroy all food sources and control the water?
>>73023549
Opium
>>73024341
>well
>>73024435
No one wants to do that, though, because the whole point of conquering stuff is so you can use the natives as cheap labor. If they all die because you firebombed all their crops, who is going to work in the mines or make opium?
>>73023676
Well, hell yeah.
>>73023414
>Afghanistan is an irrelevant failed state forged of historically irrelevant tribes
I mean before radical islam swept the place, the people were pretty chill, but still ultimately meaningless in the larger geopolitical picture. I understand Iran and Iraq were the same, although historically they were much more important.
I think the lesson is that once you catch institutionalized Islam, your country goes straight to the shit tier no matter how great it was before.
Russia and Britain come to mind. Mongols wrecked Afghanistan though.
Afghanistan has some deep, historic neglect issues. The Persians didn't care because swarthy people in far away deserts and mountains, the Indians didn't care because it's outside the Indian subcontinent. Everyone else expected Afghanistan to subsist on silk road trade.
>>73027124
who the fuck let John Green into this thread
>muh mongols
>>73027434
>Mentioning Mongols changes my Australian flag to an American and turns me into gigacuck the teen giny tingler
>>73025017
What if you're not fighting to conquer, you're fighting to make it into an unlivable hellscape, like what happened to the Baybylonians? Babylon fell because the Parthians killed every tree, burned all the crops, burned the city to dust, killed almost all the men and forced all the women and children to go on a trail-of-tears style journey back to mainland Parthia, where most died and the rest were enslaved?
