Why Afghanistan Is Impossible to Conquer
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- Published on Jul 30, 2021
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WELP...
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This video failed so fast LOL :)
Aged like milk
The timing on this video is simply impeccable
@Alone Walker matdhahakch
@COD GOD nope Afghanistan is impossible to conquer unless nuclear weapons are used no matter how hard the us will try they will never conquer it and even if they do the cost to do so will be much greater than it should be for a small nation and militia/resistance will be a constant factor which will bring back Afghanistan if it’s conquered
@COD GOD lol excuses
@chammnda gold Huh 😂
Afghanistan would be such a beautiful country if it weren't for the fighting
honesty it still is.
@Toca Shorts The Taliban is not there to fix the country rather the opposite. They just want to make sure that Pakistan has no real enemies at it's Borders.
@Johan True
Thank you for making this video. As an Afghan, I would rather caption it why to not conquer Afghanistan? Why there should be an invasion at all in the first place?
Leave it to Taliban
@Ayesha Khan Any problem to you. He must be proud of his afghanistan. why one would leave their country?
Ashraf Ghani: We will ward off further violence
Afghans: That means you're gonna defend Kabul til the very end, right?
Ashraf Ghani: ...
Afghans: *That means you're gonna defend Kabul til the very end, right?*
"I never said I had a plan... *I said I had a plane"* - Ashraf Ghani, probably
@Its bitcoin Typical Pashto trying to represent the whole Afghan country and making them seem they all think like Pashtos.
@Theon. we are glad we have such a great and genius president alhamdolilah
Our dear leader is just so accurate at depicting history using his powerful and understandable memes
"One of the poorest and least developed country on the planet"
As an Afghan this sentence just made me cry
At the end of the day we Afghans are RESPONSIBLE
gg your war against yourself has ended its your time to develop
Afghanistan: * Impossible to conquer*
Afghanistan: Fine. I’ll do it myself
@just another account Nah bruh do your research before writing a comment thats half true. Yes they have retreated to Pakistan ,because they are trained there etc. And there is enough evedience that shows that they are alot of Pakistanis in the Taliban (There are also Pakistani soldier's there).
@snips KitKat They are a mix of Afghan Pashtuns and Pakistanis , so yes it's true.
@Yurichtube High percentage which is true for the Pashtun majority ,but not for the other ehtinics or people that live in Cities. But please do research before writing random crap.
@Its bitcoin Bruh You have no knowledge as I see. Afghanistan never had good relations with Pakistans government and threatend Pakistan alot when Afghanistan had a working government. Pakistan was often scared of Afghanistans government. I forgot which year it was ,but Pakistan was scared and threatend by a non-corrupt ,mostly working government.
As An Afghan living in Afghanistan, I do accept that Taliban still has no 100% control over Afghanistan. there are areas where people even don't know anything about the taliban and pervious collapsed government.
That brings hope to people there.
jokes aside it is very interesting to know the geological history of the country to not only know how well the taliban knows it, but to see why many invading powers try and fail to seize it.
Thank you for this detailed and informative video.
All of these challenges to a foreign power trying to control Afghanistan should have been clear to the U.S. in 2001, based on Russia's experiences there in the 1980s. And yet we still went in and stayed there for 20 years, thinking in our arrogance that we could do better.
As a nation, I hope we will learn from this folly and focus our efforts closer to home, where they are needed most. I blame both political parties for getting us into and keeping us involved in an unwinnable situation in an unconquerable country for far too many years.
please dont make a video “why america cant be conquered” IM BEGGING YOU
Even if America's Geography wasn't on it's side, more that HALF of the world's countries side by it.
@Colonel Slim Candy the 2nd no they didn't
😭🤣
Now he really should make a video why Afghanistan is so easy to conquer
@LEFT4BASS correct. That makes you a liberator, not conqueror.
Except it isn’t. The US was the conqueror here. The Taliban was the resistance. The resistance won after 20 years.
@afarensis79 but then you’re not really a conqueror.
I've living for billions of years and never seen anything aged this bad lmao
( Apparently I was wrong, sorry to you people out there. Idk anything about Afghanistan,)
@Matthew the taliban themselves are afghans, so they conquered their own country and the government left.
@🇺🇲The United States of America Calm, down a little bit.Your anger is understandable at some point.Try to stay away from insane people.
@cat eater lol huh since when?
you mean ancient egypt you know it wasn't muslim right...
@🇺🇲The United States of America stop using the anesthetic and surgical tools we invented
And in those years you never learned to spell
You know, when you gave the example of Poland, I was like 'But, didn't that happen to Poland?' as from 1975 up till the end of WW1, there was no Polish state as Austria, Prussia(succeeded by Germany) and Russia had conquered it all and divided it among themselves. Still, I got the point.
Not to mention the Greek empire met its expansionary end at Afghanistan because of dozens of uprisings
The difference between SU and US is that the Soviet-back regime of Nagibulla held for about 3 years after the withdrawal of Soviet troops. The US-backed regime didn't last a month!
The difference is that they had a air force
Everyone asks "Why is Afghanistan impossible to conquer". No one asks "Why conquer Afghanistan?"
@GRIMLOCK07 Right, poppy there worth more than gold
One word Uranium
@Jared Henderson there is no oil there
@M B this with the answer above it are the best answers in the entire comment thread
Dude c'mon
Pretty much every conquerer has encountered the same problem. Conquering a territory chews up your resources to an extent. Keeping it chews them up even more.
Afghan Pakistan border: is the most dangerous
South and North Korea: am I a joke to you?
@B. H. Kapadia ind pak china border be like
@B. H. Kapadia india Pak border isn't more dangerous tho
Mean while pakistan:I dance with danger💃🔪
@All countries Latest Songs we didn’t lose, we pulled any military support 8 months ago (trump’s idea) and basically gave up. During those months the Afghan military couldn’t function without our air, logistics, and advisory support. No one bothered to restructure the Afghan military to where it could function without minimal US military support.
@Colonel Slim Candy the 2nd Trolling went too far man...
whats funny about this video is that just yesterday i watched an interview with an american journalist and the president of pakistan and he kept telling the majority of people on the boarder are pashtune and has lost 15k troops trying to stop taliban soldiers from going back and forth. but the american was having none of it. now this little doc just backed his story on how easy it is and was for the taliban to move back and forth especially when fellow countrymen are on both sides of the boarder
I don't get something. How come the Soviets could take Berlin in 1945 by storming it with millions of troops, but it can't take Afghanistan the same way?
This speedrun is even better than the ones in Minecraft. Can’t wait to see the next one
3000th like!
@Davidthegamer956 time traveler?
@Davidthegamer956 welpp....
True
This answered decades of questions that I had about Afghanistan, now it makes sense, thank you
Thank you
RealLifeLore !!! for doing what you do and giving us reliable information !!!
Was in Afghanistan in 2010-11 spent majority of the time at Bagram AFB heard most of brigade mission was compromised a day or two before the day of mission, heard from my ALOC chain of command, A Co made false attacks because their Soldiers wasn't getting any Combat Infantry Badges because no contact. They send me to the ALOC because of my back issues. Which I carried the dead on to the plane shook General Petraeus 5 times each during a mass casualty funeral. I was made to go against my FreeWill to Obama fly in also to Bidon fly in which I told Bidon to his face "I am not going to shake your hand, also I was told to come here." The look on his face. Now Bidon has executive order to take our freedom of fuel vehicle by the year 2020. It Must be the reason I didn't shake his hand.👁️
I’ve been to Afghanistan before, most of my family live there I was supposed to go last year but of corona i didn’t and I was supposed to go this year but I couldn’t of the taliban. It’s a really fun country but it has extreme poverty and it’s one of the saddest countries 😔
I think a better title should be: “Why Afghanistan is Impossible for Foreigners to Conquer”
@Lalehian Deity No that's incorrect. The US left, which they should have done a long time ago, they had no business being in Afghanistan in the 1st place.
2800 Coalition dead
53000 Taliban dead - yeah sure they won.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Ian Hinrichsen And yet, the Taliban have won.
@Lalehian Deity Rats always end up dead - either by poisoning or a smarter, fox terrier rips them to pieces.
@Lalehian Deity Yeah, so the cowardly rats can hide.
XD well... As a Pole, I must say that the border directly cutting Poland to eastern and western halfs would be the best solution that would ever happen :D.
It perfectly draws a difference between the Right-sided anti-EU, catholic, also well... less civilizied part of the country, and more West-oriented majority of Polish cities and people.
I mean, The EU hasn’t exactly been affective at managing resources and funds, hence why England left
That's very stupid
Well, he did say, "Afghanistan is easy to invade and take over but it's almost impossible to effectively hold it for long..."
so i guess, what he says may still hold water at the end.
Timestamp: 10:45
RLL’s answer for everything geopolitical: Yeah it’s because of her GEOGRAPHY
Singapore got expelled from Malaysia in 1965 & we've Malays, Chinese, & Indians straddling across both countries (though those in Malaysia are more traditional e.g. they learn non-language subjects in school in their respective mother tongues or Malay (for some non-Malays), instead of in English like in Singapore, while the races in Singapore have their cultures intermingle with each other to create a more cosmopolitan national identity I think), but both countries seem more stable (though I heard Malaysia faces a brain drain from the Chinese as Malays have government affirmative action that benefits them more). Also meant that when the border was effectively shut by the ongoing pandemic (Malaysia banned its citizens from leaving the country, while both countries require those crossing the border to quarantine, for a whopping 3 weeks in Singapore's case @ 1 point, & it has to be in a hotel some more (instead of your own home), so @ a room rate of $100+ daily, the quarantine is going to cost you ~$3000, or almost a month's salary of a Singapore fresh graduate, & several times that of Malaysian workers), a sizable number of people were impacted. Singapore is home to 400000 Malaysians, or ~7% of its population, many of whom ended up being separated long-term from relatives in Malaysia if they chose to remain in Singapore to keep their jobs there (which pay more than in Malaysia also)
I mean... geography is pretty much influential. No country could ever win against canada, not even the US for example, since if u have a small army that actually knows and understands the winter and hard mountainous/icy lands of your country, you can make a better strategy to defeat anyone; if the US sent a massive army to canada, they could prepare in specific positions to just camp on the enemies, like what Finland did, they only lost because the soviets were madlads that would keep sending people even if their army was completely over, just forcing more and more flesh mountains to weakener the enemy
99.9% it is though. Including England and her previously legendary Navy.
british imperial meddling?
FINALLY A COMMENT WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT THE TALIBAN
6:12 Even a better comparison in my opinion: Ancient Greece. All islands had their own authority but were united.
RealLifeLore: Afghanistan can't be conquered
Taliban: And I took that personally
@Theo Noble not some Afghanis ALL Afghanis that aren’t mercenaries of america nobody with any semblance of rationality is going to say that the land doesn’t belong to the members of the Taliban
Arguably not a conquering, some Afghanis could consider it just the people reclaiming it
Its dumb idk
@grown_715 hen
that is not bad for pakistani people since taliban fighters are also from pakistan
This videos says how it's impossible to conquer it from the outside, and since the world's most powerful military couldn't conquer it the video aged very well.
Thank you for informative and well put together documentary.
thank you for
Thanks for the tutorial it really helped a lot long live!
Because We never Lose Hope On Allah SWT
Proud to be Afghan 💖🇦🇫💖🇦🇫💖🇦🇫💖
Afghanistan : "No one can conquer me"
Poland : "Is it possible to learn this power?"
@Swarnava Samanta you are crazy ghaznavi lodhi sheer shah suri aludin khilji ahmed shah abdali I can keep going all of them were Pashtun Afghan we ruled for more then 1200 years 😂😂😂😂😂
@Jon 65 one has sea from three sides and Armenia had to deal with neighbours, not with empires from faraway (I know the Soviet Union too had a border with Afghanistan but its centre of power was still on another continent, within a very different culture). Maybe close neighbours like Pakistan or Iran would have more succes conquering Afganistan, especially if they were stronger than they are but still below the likes of the US. Because they could relate better to how the Afghans think.
@lucian boar well Armenia and Korea are mountainous and yet they were like Poland..
Can you do one of these for every state in the US, starting with Seattle,WA?
It's not about geography it's about Afghan people who never ever bow down to a foreign invasion. That's all
Two of the most accurate things I've ever heard about Afghanistan: 1.) "If the world needed an enima it would shove Afghanistan up its ass!" , and 2.) "It's a war over 40,000 villages.
The Taliban didn't conquer Afghanistan, they are afghans themselves.
@Eri Protection Squad Fidel Castro conquered Cuba even though he was Cuban
Conquer: Overcome and take control of (a place or people) by use of military force. Lenin and the Bolsheviks conquered Russia even though the Bolsheviks were mostly Russians. The People's Republic Of China conquered China when they were mostly Chinese. Fidel Castro conquered Cuba even though he is Cuban. You can still conquer the place regardless if you're natively from there or not.
The Taliban are mostly Pakistanis*
@Zhi Han Lee no there not, outsiders are not allowed to join Taliban, you must show loyalty to your tribe on Afghan soil first before joining Taliban
@jizzed How am I making myself look stupid exactly?
In short, Afghanistan is so hard to conquer that even Afghanistan can’t conquer itself
No fight Afghan& Afghan no more...🌎
@Sam Norton you would know that Bactria had many greeks by the time Alexander came and they did not resist him, rather rejoiced when he entered into this region. It was only the sogdians who resisted him, when he created Alexandria Eschate. Sogdia isn't even part of Afghanistan. It is what modern Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. After this the only revolts that occurred were greek soldiers who did not want to live in Baktria.
@Sam Norton there were no tribes... It was analogous to other kingdoms of the diadochi....
@Lugburz Again, it was not under control, the tribes still had their own rule. Much like Hong Kong citizens who refuse to be under the Chinese law yet they are in their mind they are not no matter what and they will fight for it till they die same here
Afghanistan couldn't be conquered because the various tribes had skillshare.
This makes me wonder why Afghanistan hasn't split into multiple smaller countries. If centralized power is so difficult, simply switching to localized power seems the logical conclusion. I know reality is a lot more complicated, tho
True. Im of the Shinwari Pashtun tribe
We live roughly by the Pakistani afghan border. right in beetween actuay
Its like this. In Afghanistan there is NO concept of a "united Afghansitan". first of all look at the terrain too much mountains, diffrent language histort cukture values
and most importantly too much tribes and sub tribes who act as independent people and have control over their land
Spent 11 months of my life deployed there. I can confirm this.
“The Afghanistan-Pakistan border is the most dangerous border in the world”
*North Korea be like:*
"No outsider can conquer Afganistan"
Taliban: "Good thing we are not outsiders then😎"
@Hanie Sings taliban are afghans if taliban were not our own people or the afghans not supporting them they won’t be able to fight against the Afghans most of the afghans were supporting taliban
@Hanie Sings the original commenter
@Hanie Sings you are wrong
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The title is very misleading though, Afghanistan have been conquered many times by the Persians, Mongols, Soviets, British, Caliphate, Timurids, Mughals?
Fascinating video! One thing I wish more people knew about was Operation Cyclone. Could change some perspectives.
@paradox what isn't?
@Tarif Burki what’s wrong with that?
It's actually so sad that Afganistan has been invaded fo pretty much its whole existence
realLifeLore: afganistan is impossible to conquer.....
taliban: am i a joke to you
"If nobody capable of conquering you, you conquer yourself"
- Sun Tzu, Art of war
Conquer yourself! The Afghan occupation was for RARE EARTH MINERALS. 😔
Remember, a typical Taliban fighter in Afghanistan, just like a typical Viet-Cong guerrilla fighter in the Indochina war in the past, carries less than $100 worth of homemade arms & ammunition. Just saying.
For hard truths, pls read informative multi-pages 'Ole Fella' comment (on TheXvid) at, "China-US tensions: A closer look at the Five-Eyes intelligence partnership / CGTN"
Your 4.1k like
and that citizens, is how i got your new government
@Mujtaba Siddiqui its a joke from the Minecraft TheXvidr Technoblade lol
penaldo is finished
Divide and rule policy doesn't apply in Afghanistan
Tribe's may be against eachother but foreigners presence unites them instead of dividing them more
France is the 5th biggest country on Earth which means Afghanistan isn’t small if they are comparable.
RealLifeLore: Afghanistan is impossible for foreigners to conquer
Mongols, Macedonians, Achaemenids, Timurids, Mughals, Ghaznavids: Try me
@Rajesh Pal Sikhs didnt even enter Afghanistan.
They only managed to get into Peshawar (present day Pakistan)
Sikhs are laughing in corner 😂😂😂
@toh786 still counts that afghanistan was "conquered"
@Jack's Wasted Life Back in those days, Afghanistan was not populated. There were a few communities, sure, but there was no united force or a sense of nationhood as there has been in recent times.
@ArtistDigital no
“If Poland was split between Russia and Germany…”
Hey, I know this one!
This has gotta be some kind of world record for how quickly something aged like milk
@EazyTheDon54St "no offense but I think it's hilarious that yu think some mountain men with 1970's ak's can drive out the U.S army😂😂😂" - ummm, that's exactly what happened. just out of curiosity, who do you think won the vietnam war? :D
@Joeri Tijhuis those are 300 BC barbarians, the remnants of Alexander the Great Macedonian army, some of which settled and didn't return west. Research Bactrian history, and the ethnogenesis of the Pashtun people. A good portion of them have a haplotype found in the Balkans/Northern Greece.
@Gabriel M how?
@Mith there is also the fact that many commented here as if they did not notice how the video was uploaded while the Talibans were doing their thing. If it was a video made, say, a year ago, then fine, but this video was made now to also explain why it took 2 decades for this
@Ace007 you are dense af
The road from bagram to kabul was rebuilt so many times. It would have massive potholes after 1 winter.
Seems to me this video can be titled "Why Afghanistan is Impossible to Understand by the Best Brains of the Most Powerful Countries." The US, UK, USSR have heard the expression graveyard of empires but simply don't get it and invaded anyway.
Those mountains contain 3 trillion or more of rare minerals, so other than opuim that's what foreign nations want
"Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer"
Taliban's: and we took that personally
There is no lesson in history without saying "The British arbitrarily drew the border"
@zarathustra “The Left can’t meme” is a saying you know. Since their jokes aren’t funny, and get triggered easily 😂 just saying
This thread was hilarious to read 😂
@The Empathic Armed Infidel oh hunny, you're so far gone even a radiotelescope can't even spot you anymore.
@The Empathic Armed Infidel you must be fun at parties
Those clowns
I mean, you don't earn the nickname *"The Graveyard of Empires"* for nothing.
Why use the example of Poland being divided when you can point to an actual real world example of Ireland being divided by the same people who divided up the Pashtuns
Afghanistan: Time to conquer myself twice!
The whole world: 🤦
Afghanistan respectively parts of it was/were incorporated into foreign empires in the past all the time (by Perians, Greeks, Indians, Sassanids, Mongols etc.). Afghanistan isn't difficult to conquer and it's not too difficult to rule over as a part of your empire.
However, it is almost impossible to control the country as a vassal state when your heartland is thousands of miles away.
@Neelanjana Chatterjee Yes Chandragupta Maurya, Bindusara, Ashoka the great and gupta emperors all ruled Afghanistan or atleast parts of it
I think in this context indian means mayurian empire and king called Ashoka who ruled in 4th century BC . That's how it was initially buddist. It's also before Islam so there was more commonality.
11 days is one hell of a speedrun.
I’d dread it the moral and the people of sheer will (yes I just quoted John wick)
3 months. 11 days to conquer the more urbanized areas.
Well 3.5 months and they were actually Afghan
@Zylnex xd
Elaborate
I've got a 2000 word essay on Afghanistan and im watching this video on repeat as a result lmao
“WELP...”
google transleter: PUPPY...
I am laughing 🤣
@Unsaid_Magnite No, the captions show up in english. I want to know where this google translate stuff comes from. I'm on windows 7 if that helps
@NCHLT the word welp is translated to puppy in german
I don't get it
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The way you conquer them is to turn them against each other, isolate them, and make them stay there.
God is the greatest 🦁☝🏻 long live Afghanistan
(Taliban) islamic emirate of Afghanistan has won
Afghanistan is basically a polar opposite of Poland
Afghanistan: "graveyard of empires"
Poland: "playground of empires"
@MaquaCR and what 2200 years ????
@Ahmad Faisal Oriakhel you can too search it in your country's wiki by searching "Mauryas empire" or "Gupta empire" , it still gonna show you Afghanistan a part of their empire's territory
@ran vijay Where have you got this information from? What source? Wiki-indi?? 😅😅😂
@MaquaCR and when did ghurid conquered India about 1000 years or 1millennium ago
@MaquaCR conquest is conquest
I strangely had this way of thinking...
If building a modern nation-state concept in Afghanistan is impossible, should we just try the model of a tribal confederation? It could've worked out in the framework of Switzerland. Instead of cantons, the administrative 'division' could've just been built up on the basis of ethnicity. There will be no single head of state, but a Supreme Loya Jirga (if it's what its called) composed of representatives from the Tajiks, the Uzbeks, the Pashtuns, and other ethnicities will be the collective heads of state of Afghanistan (similar to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR or the Federal Council of Switzerland). Then we'll call it the Bactrian Confederation (in my opinion a rather neutral name deriving from the ancient Persian province covering roughly the modern-day territory of Afghanistan) since Afghanistan would imply an ethnic dominance of Afghans/Pashtuns (doesn't sit well considering the experiences of many states). It better be a neutral state similar to the Swiss so that everyone can just fucking mind their own businesses. Each of the ethnicities will have a sort of wide autonomy similar to the cantons of Switzerland, with issues of nationwide impact being discussed at a sort of federal parliament in either Kabul or Herat. This allows them the tribal affiliation they had always wanted, to be represented commonly federationwide only in foreign affairs (a single Bactrian foreign ministry/embassy) and common military issues (which as consequence, all weapons should be held by the federal authorities while forbidding each of the ethnicities from having their own means to wage war or conflict).
But that's just my thinking. I'm in no way an Afghan tho...
Currently ethnic divisions have become wider and more popular in Afghanistan and it seems that it will go into civil war sooner or later. Maybe in another decade or two we will see Afghanistan split into independent ethnic states.
RealLifeLore: Why Afghanistan Is Impossible to Conquer
The taliban: You dare test my powers
For the people who don’t know the memes: After the US soldiers departed, the Talibans basically took Afghan with no trouble.
"When people cant destroy you, you can destroy yourself"
I learned more on the first 5 minutes of this video than I have ever learned about Afghanistan in the last 20 years from news outlets.
Me too!
That’s because you don’t read, you watch whatever is thrown at you.
Same, and I've been there twice lol
Make spaghetti 🍝 not war
Thats the idea
there was a man capable to run Afghanistan and his name was Gengis Kan.
The timing of this vid was amazing and it was conquered 11 days later
Getting into Afghanistan is not that hard. Getting out after you realize there is nothing there is when they all got slaughtered. The reason Great Britten went in was to stop the Russians from getting too close to India colonies. Russians went in because the English invaded and they felt insecure about the Brittish getting too close to Russia.
RLL: Afghanistan is impossible to conquer. Taliban: hold my beer
The timing was absolutely fantastic, I challenge anybody to find a better timing for something
Do a video on Why Ukraine is impossible to conquer
"What if the Soviet Union reunited today?"
But afghanistan never got conquered?
The timing was deliberate.
@Daniel Martin lol okay. Sure.
Makes you wonder how the Greco-Bactrians did it.
Well, you missed the most important part. Look at the truck the afghan army was driving in your video. A Toyota heliux! That truck is invincible!!!
As an Afghan I am impressed
"why afghanistan is impossible to conquer"
taliban: hold my slipper and ak 47
@aisha Shaista IKR
FOOL TALIBANS ARE AFGHANS LEARN SOME HISTORY BLOOD FIGHT BLOOD THATS WHAT IS
RealLifeLore: *makes this video*
Taliban: “And I took that personally”
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Anybody tell me how he make this type of editing using these maps..thank you
4:25 Well, that wouldn't be the only time Kush impeded on someone's ability to get a job done.
LMAOOOO
To conquer a foreign land maybe an easy task however one must conquer hearts and mind to gain and maintain forever control. You can’t make friends if your intentions aren’t friendly and even if you do succeed in making friends while hiding bad intentions, it simply won’t last long.
Using strength and force: even cage fighters boxing, wrestling etc.. you may win a match or two but to maintain championship you must remain forever in the ring and continue to win every single match or else you will kicked out and stripped off by some unexpected opponent or you retire l(escape).
For every relationship diplomatic or civil, international or domestic the basic and fundamental ingredients are the same and as follows: mutual respect, honesty, fairness, compromise, independence, loyalty, faithfulness and mutual prosperity. Yes i understand it can only happen to take place in a perfect world and where leaders and policy influencers and makers are peace thinking and intellectual individuals! Unlike greedy self declared Pharaohs! 😬
Inaccurate
Afghanistan was conquered by Afghanistan
-1000 respect points
“ *How do you defeat an enemy who looks into the barrel of a gun and sees paradise?* ”
Said by Russian Commander
By pulling the trigger.
@Yummy mellow trillions of dollars spent to military and equipment just for the president to escape the country by plane.
Sure thing bro.
"A little larger than France"
*Bigger than France and Belgium combined*
The four horseman of only being conquered by themselves:
Russia
Afghanistan
Earth
The internet
This is the video that aged the best on TheXvid, convince me otherwise.
Surely he knew what impossible meant before making this
Well this sure aged well.
......yeah....
@Black Haze America has in NO way "depleted" the resources of Afghanistan. They still sit on trillions of dollars worth of mineral wealth. Not to mention they're still the world's largest exporter of opium. For whatever that's worth.
@tranimal nothing the US did over the course of 20 years could even remotely be described as "conquering" Afghanistan.
“Most dangerous border” - more dangerous than the DMZ border between North and South Korea ? I don’t think so. Switzerland is also more mountainous, less populated and landlocked with various localized politics and languages so the highlands argument is flat. The crux is how it is disparate in authority, corrupt, Islamic centered and poor in capital and industry.
If he makes “Why Earth is Impossible to conquer.” Aliens are just gonna start dropping from the sky 13 seconds later
Alternative title: world most powerful US can't & struggle to defeat Afghanistan like Vietnam xD