Why Afghanistan Is Impossible to Conquer

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[@RealLifeLore]

WELP...

[@MoochiDoesRoblox]

LMAO DIDNT AGE WELL

[@kingarthur7968]

Bruh....

[@TurkFNBR]

Bruh lol

[@zaidyounas1602]

I'm so early that Afghan president left

[@TurkFNBR]

That didn’t age well

[@SADAF786pk]

Ashraf ghani: "don't worry guys" Ashraf ghani: "I have a plan" *Ashraf ghani has left the game*

[@estehte5764]

More like "I have a plane"

[@X_Otman]

he raged quit

[@lildrippy8245]

@@estehte5764 ba dum ts

[@hipsterdoggo7604]

Don't worry guys, this all part of Ashraf ghani's fail-safe plan 😅

[@SilvercraftStudio]

Last seen 6 years ago

[@UnsaidMagnite]

“WELP...” google transleter: PUPPY...

[@johnfu3633]

So true

[@w.d.gaster9745]

Russian?

[@UnsaidMagnite]

@@w.d.gaster9745 german

[@pardeepgarg2640]

Transl8or

[@sarthakiii]

Yeah rll comment translation

[@waseemahmad1226]

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.

[@arminiuszmazowszanin2670]

That brings hope to people there.

[@mansoorb7862]

Stop lying

[@mansoorb7862]

Everyone know I'm afghanistan

[@idreskhan5597]

@@mansoorb7862 jepp but colabi ur come from tajikstan colab villige ur imagratet from tsjiktstan therfor u lying

[@JackTalyorD]

At the end of the the crops need to be harvested and the goats need to be milked................. what matters about the rest.

[@muhamadamin3]

Afghanistan: * Impossible to conquer* Afghanistan: Fine. I’ll do it myself

[@seyhaksin5618]

It's the Taliban lol they have thier own flag

[@JustAnotherAccount8]

@@seyhaksin5618 yes but that basically makes it akin to a civil war, so they conquered their own country

[@panjshiris-shir1857]

@@seyhaksin5618 are you stupid Talibans are Afghan but stupid terrorist Attacking there own country

[@WarConicX]

@@panjshiris-shir1857 do you even English bro

[@panjshiris-shir1857]

@@WarConicX No can you teach me

[@drew_mb]

Everyone asks "Why is Afghanistan impossible to conquer". No one asks "Why conquer Afghanistan?"

[@novemberguy9]

Seriously 😒😑

[@Jaredhenderson765]

Oil

[@Vichu.]

Afghanistan is in centre of silk road so it was strategic then and fairly central..

[@MB-do1sh]

I'm not saying these are the right reasons, but Afghanistan has been traditionally a target as a passageway between the west and the far east, especially the Khyber pass. They called it "the gateway to India" In modern times, Afghanistan has a great deal of resources like rare earth metals.

[@Athanatoi]

Because Gold and pipeline for Black Gold(Oil)

[@koharumi1]

Afghanistan couldn't be conquered because the various tribes had skillshare.

[@zaytime4156]

Correct Same thing w/ Ancient Africa…hard to Conquer a place w/ multiple hostile tribes full of Rebels, militaries are organized Tribes are not they kill each other so much they have more than enough practice

[@InsaneFedAgent]

"Lets invade Afganistan" -Last words of empires

[@arthas640]

Unless they're Greek, North Indian, Iranian, Turkic, Arabic, Huns, or Scythians. The country was basically ruled by Greeks for most of the classical period and spent most of its history as a frontier for various Iranian empires before it was conquered by Turkic/Mongolian empires for nearly all of the medieval and modern period, ironically it mainly gained independence thanks to Russian and British imperialism and their squabbling made Afghanistan more valuable as a border state than a colony so neither of them tried too hard to secure it since Russia mainly just wanted to keep the British out of Central Asia and the British mainly just wanted to keep raiders and the Russians out of India but neither of them really wanted Afghanistan all that much.

[@eonthinker100yrago8]

@@arthas640 iranians and scythians are related to or are ancestors of afghans

[@Someone345y]

Sikh emperor Maharaja Ranjit Singh defeated Afghans and occupied large part of Afghan lands

[@jhonklan3794]

i mean not really lmao. Its not really a country, there is nothing to invade.

[@m.streicher8286]

This comment section is literally 10,000 people making the same joke

[@Man44444]

@Adosan Yes agreed

[@ejuss4216]

Yeah, imma gonna take a rest here after reading the same comment over and over again Come join us. It looks like u have been scrolling the same comment type

[@minxjii7208]

Its a funny coincidence

[@roadbone1941]

They really think the Taliban have perminently "won", as if Afghanistan won't collapse into civil war & anarchy

[@jort281]

Remember when youtube was mainly racist and a horrible place to chat. Now it's a clone army of comedians desperate for likes. Both equally horrifying.

[@crispcheck]

RealLifeLore: *makes this video* Taliban: “And I took that personally”

[@diamondy1235]

And it got 170 likes

[@crispcheck]

@@diamondy1235 honestly I thought my comment was just gonna get buried so I’m surprised

[@diamondy1235]

@@crispcheck and it got 180 likes

[@memesimulator7405]

fr

[@simongutierrez4624]

@@diamondy1235 722😳

[@rvvanlife]

This answered decades of questions that I had about Afghanistan, now it makes sense, thank you

[@satanharsh1999]

"why afghanistan is impossible to conquer" taliban: hold my slipper and ak 47

[@Afghangoat7]

Taliban are Afghans

[@satanharsh1999]

@@Afghangoat7 taliban is terrorist group made up of afghans people

[@allcountrieslatestsongs3453]

FOOL TALIBANS ARE AFGHANS LEARN SOME HISTORY BLOOD FIGHT BLOOD THATS WHAT IS

[@Afghangoat7]

@@Mirwankhilji IKR

[@MeGawOOt99]

11 days is one hell of a speedrun.

[@cpeir8460]

Yes lol

[@flowsmallen9082]

👏

[@radiobell920]

doo doo doo doo

[@ruskru5318]

Not…. Yet

[@AllusAmericanosNeed2wakeUP]

Taliban are afghan tho. Afghans taking over Afghans lol

[@fifthcolumn388]

“Imagine if Poland was divided between Germany and Russia.” Why use my imagination when I can just use a European history book?

[@platzpropeller858]

Poland? whats that?

[@RottenFlesh-we6nu]

@@platzpropeller858 a part of germany 😏

[@platzpropeller858]

@@RottenFlesh-we6nu unsere Fahne flattert uns voran!

[@fifthcolumn388]

@@RottenFlesh-we6nu in all honesty, Poland could have existed independently, but Germany should have never had East Prussia and the Danzig Corridor taken from it. Could have really avoided WWII.

[@WhiteBloggerBlackSpecs]

Underrated comment lol

[@WahidAzizi1]

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?

[@shumailakhan8290]

I appreciate it ☺️

[@xredds]

Well

[@xredds]

It was already taken by Taliban so get fucked

[@hazm001]

@@xredds not really a get fucked moment when the taliban are essentially the people of the land

[@josealexiscarrasco3778]

Is posswssion of mariguana okay over tjere?

[@clydefrog8711]

When I was there, there was a castle in the center of the city (qalat) that was built by Alexander the Great. That country is timeless.

[@surreal_travel]

When did you go mate? I’m going next month if all goes well

[@eurovision50]

"Afghanistan is impossible to conquer." Taliban: Hold my alcohol-free beer.

[@random.....200]

Alcohol free 😂😂😂😂😂

[@khariperdue4581]

@Anon Commenter they aren’t allowed to drink alcohol due to their religion is what he meant.

[@ms.hernandez7241]

Lol 😂🤣

[@swaggtomaxx1]

“Hold my beard”

[@TheKalihiMan]

On the contrary, the previous government under Ashraf Ghani was a proxy of the invading force (in this case the United States), and held little if any legitimacy among the people of Afghanistan. It collapsed because no one outside of Ghani’s inner circle of US-backed strongmen actually believed in their cause, least of all the rank and file soldiers who were directly fighting the Taliban. If anything the government dissolving before the Taliban even got a chance to negotiate with them only reinforces the legacy of Afghanistan being difficult for foreign occupiers to pacify.

[@codysmith461]

The timing on this video is simply impeccable

[@jadenyuki3138]

Ye

[@alonewalker8128]

Breh moment

[@Leo1928-]

Well yea

[@1juggy352]

ikr

[@MegaLiamsi]

The video is still not wrong. US tried to conquer it for 20 years but failed, brittish empire and soviet tried to conquer it before and also failed.

[@josephryan9230]

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.

[@lucasgoodwin5667]

Which is ‘till, in CE 2021, Sleepy Joe Biden had to withdraw the U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, so the Taliban extremists take over, just like the Vietnam war. & he even left the expensive things in that country, which is terrible, by the way.

[@NasirKhan-es5pk]

"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

[@fakealizer8280]

gg your war against yourself has ended its your time to develop

[@Mountain_2]

@@fakealizer8280 bro the Taliban conquered the entire of it and they don't want it to develop probably because half of the human rights are considered lifetime in prison. Literally the most ignorant person I've met also even in your simple world you see we can't just "invade Afghanistan again wawawa" we have tried that and wasted 2 trillion dollars which is big(very obvious) also

[@jacksin3323]

money breeds evil. trust me. i live in the united states (our states are not very united, most disagree GREATLY, and our own federal government cant seem to get all of them in order. the fed is everyones nightmare.

[@yta5534]

Me as a Muslim say.. dont put religion into your politics man. Its 2022, not 1430. We turks do the same but hey, its a big NOT.

[@beefy1986]

Dude look at Afghanistan back in the early 20th century when the King was still in power. Such a beautiful and peaceful place inspite of the different ethnics living within. The wars and corruption just ruined it like most of the Middle East, Iraq and Iran.

[@lep2375]

"Why Afghanistan is Impossible to Conquer" Meanwhile Taliban: *It's free real estate*

[@apolloorosco6852]

" Why do people comment in quote"

[@Ridz149]

@@apolloorosco6852 because he was quoting the title. That’s how quotes are supposed to be used

[@apolloorosco6852]

@@Ridz149 “that’s how quotes are supposed to be used “ - Ridz

[@Ridz149]

@@apolloorosco6852 😂😂😂

[@sprunkadct]

Lol

[@TheBenjaming]

“Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer” Michael “Taliban” Jordan: And I took that personally

[@derpmcgerp8062]

"That's I all I needed."

[@MrBcardinal35]

LeBron would join the Taliban if they got a superteam

[@None-vx2dz]

Are u guy's afghani

[@karanpothula3386]

@@MrBcardinal35 KD joining after USA lost lol

[@derpmcgerp8062]

@@MrBcardinal35 I think you mean KD. Lebron at least went back and won a chip with his hometown team.

[@eddieliusa]

Afghan Pakistan border: is the most dangerous South and North Korea: am I a joke to you?

[@b.h.kapadia437]

Indo Pak border : Are you comedy me

[@allcountrieslatestsongs3453]

Bro Afghanistan is the most dangerous country in the world so it is the most dangerous border in the world 🤣

[@usa5893]

@@allcountrieslatestsongs3453 the border of N.K and S.K is the most protected place in the world.

[@allcountrieslatestsongs3453]

@@usa5893 NORTH KOREA IS SAFE AFGHANISTAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUS COUNTRY ON EARTH 🌎 😳

[@usa5893]

@@allcountrieslatestsongs3453 doesn’t change the fact that the border is not the most dangerous.

[@goldengolem4725]

This is the video that aged the best on KZbin, convince me otherwise.

[@eibarman-5750]

"If nobody capable of conquering you, you conquer yourself" - Sun Tzu, Art of war

[@artistandcamera3245]

Aaaand that's exactly what happened.

[@vulkarin8616]

I know most of you don’t care anyway, but it was actually an advocate of Sun Tzu who said that.

[@artistandcamera3245]

@@vulkarin8616 I care! Accuracy is important. So... Source? :)

[@vulkarin8616]

@@artistandcamera3245 I’ve read it in "The Lost Art of War“ from Sun Tzu II. The lost pages were even extracted from the same grave. It was in year 1973 I think

[@charleschin6497]

So afghanistan actually shouldn't be 1 country, it should have been split up into multiple countries since is so divided.

[@NightyLight]

"Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer?" Taliban:"I'm about to end this mans whole career"

[@pinacolada111]

taliban is a mix of different ethnic tribes in afghanistan... they are afghans too. so yes. they finally drove the foreigners out...

[@fritzkier]

Taliban is Afghans...

[@Shahzad-ss1jq]

@@pinacolada111 we want to live in our own country Get out

[@Shahzad-ss1jq]

I'm not from Afghanistan Close though

[@usernaam935]

Lmao what haha Talibans proved this video 100% legit

[@nanzymyap]

Thanks for the tutorial it really helped a lot long live!

[@thelucidcanoe1549]

getting my bundle rn, another great video

[@trilojag101]

“Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer” Taliban: “And I took that personally…” You children in the replys are fighting harder than the Afghan government army gosh just chill out

[@RPDC-ng8ej]

LMAOOO

[@shitsandgiggles9996]

Taliban are the locals

[@triumph_4000]

U guys in the comments sound dumb af...the talibans are Afghanis...how can u say the spanish conquered spain...learn ur facts before making low IQ memes

[@bgg5991]

@@triumph_4000 Minor spelling mistake, opinion invalid

[@_SPXDE_]

@@triumph_4000 Damn that's crazy *Who in fûck's name asked*

[@williambroyhill7638]

Very interesting.Thanks for posting.

[@casperkankarjarvi]

It's actually so sad that Afganistan has been invaded fo pretty much its whole existence

[@reflextaze419]

Taliban: *Watches video* Taliban: "And I took that personally."

[@allcountrieslatestsongs3453]

But Taliban are Afghans i don't get it

[@user-bo1dx5yt6k]

@@allcountrieslatestsongs3453 They are Afghans but they wanted to conquer the country and also most Taliban are afghan originated but dont live there

[@loganbaxter4685]

It is easy to take over land, but actually holding onto it is another question.

[@allcountrieslatestsongs3453]

@@loganbaxter4685 Afghanistan is very powerful taliban is Afghan aswell imagine if the taliban becomes Afghanistan Army damm no body can miss around with them

[@eazytv1964]

I think that really happened

[@sathvikmalgikar2842]

This is the most well documented Bruh moment

[@sanjayagautam5823]

Bruh

[@mert2841]

Brrrrruuuuu-

[@SoftestOnDaBlock]

*Bruh*

[@digital_ferret7263]

Bruh

[@V3C._]

Bruh

[@wardragonprime]

Whoever referred to Afghanistan as the "graveyard of empires" was right on target.

[@Evan.the.Butler]

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

[@omarshinwari7823]

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

[@Treasure-bl3cn]

​@@omarshinwari7823pashtuns are terrorists. The country can only surive if pashtuns get back to their Pakistan and leave us alone

[@whatcolorareyour6championships]

A Pashtunistan is long overdue, however for that to happen Pakistan has to give up basically half the country and that will never happen. You can thank the British for it. Be it Afghanistan or Pashtunistan, the idea of a Pashtun country is older than the concept of what we know as Afghanistan. Pashtuns were always synonymous to Afghans

[@valhaller1738]

Well this sure aged well.

[@rohxn6988]

hehe

[@verticalflyingb737]

Here before 500 replies

[@aashirrrrr]

This aged like raw milk man

[@XxRemixerzxX]

It has not aged because the video is talking about foreign conquest, not civil war

[@kostyapolykova9879]

Rich American white boys don’t understand anything about the Middle East and this is a prime example.

[@dereksilman5134]

The U.S really watched this and said, "He's got a point." The Taliban watched this and said, "bet."

[@johnrobinson4445]

The Taliban didn't 'conquer' Afghanistan, they ARE Afghanistan, they recruit from locals. Did G. Washington 'conquer' America?

[@kamallb4650]

@@johnrobinson4445 white people surely tried to colonise and basically conquer it 😂 America is legit the place of native Americans.

[@VioletMilks]

@@johnrobinson4445 no he didn’t, but the presidents after him sure as hell did. We basically stole a fuck ton of land off the natives, went to war with mexico and took more land, Spain?, etc

[@zepyoisthebest2373]

@@johnrobinson4445 there are somethings we call civil war.

[@zepyoisthebest2373]

Do you really think a country would Help another country if that country doesnt even try to protect or fight ?

[@abdirahmanxx6240]

Can't stop watching this video 💙🙌

[@proximity-24]

perfect timing 👌👌👌

[@30secondsflat]

I think a better title should be: “Why Afghanistan is Impossible for Foreigners to Conquer”

[@halfagallonmeech9597]

The Afghan people are ford tough that’s why forget the media.

[@PJ_PastorLuke]

Taliban are from Pakistan

[@halfagallonmeech9597]

Luke Evans what’s going on luke?

[@sherwinobenza4531]

Not really, they are occupied by Americans for 20 years…

[@halfagallonmeech9597]

sherwin obenza lol have you been or lived there?

[@lorenzoafable242]

In short, Afghanistan is so hard to conquer that even Afghanistan can’t conquer itself

[@orans_]

lol

[@infochase6656]

It would be better to divide it in small parts so some of them could govern themselves better.

[@adityabenwal]

Thats the most underrated comment.

[@ibnu9969]

@@infochase6656 nah, too small to economically sustain themselves

[@ketanpatil935]

Afghanistan was conquered by many empires for centuries Greeks, muaryans, arabs, turks, Mongols, mughals, kushans, Uzbeks etc. Occupied Afghanistan for centuries

[@FreedomLovingLoyalistOfficial]

This aged soooooo well. Thanks RLL

[@anothernpc4943]

God is the greatest 🦁☝🏻 long live Afghanistan

[@jqx]

RealLifeLore: Afghanistan can't be conquered Taliban: And I took that personally

[@ZAIRINFO]

Taliabans are the Afghans people too😩

[@zulfaniaziz8918]

because taliban is afganistan itself lol

[@FANGROBAN]

I think this video was more about foreign countries rather then a group that already controlled most of Afghanistan

[@shanestonn]

thats fucking hilarious dawg 😐

[@v1ncesbuzzsaw373]

@@ZAIRINFO taliabans wtf

[@Valendor]

Talibans after taking over Afghanistan: *"It was a long shot but first let us thank our sponsor, raid shadow legends, Nord VPN and Honey"*

[@tofu2204]

Don't forget skillshare

[@thestatic]

@@tofu2204 And Brilliant

[@gavinotheshitpostartist5586]

Also WIX, and Raycon

[@Valendor]

"Its better to have a hole in your hand, than a hand in your hole" -Sun Tzu

[@kevinc.cucumber3697]

Damn even talibans getting sponsored by raid? Nobody is safe out there

[@cookiecorn619]

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 😔

[@bernardok]

:

[@heinrich.hitzinger]

😔

[@user-xm1ld2rv5z]

@@heinrich.hitzinger As an Iraqi, I feel you

[@mastermaseeh5949]

U can go now, it's safe they say

[@lastcall8286]

Great job

[@mxlonfn]

“Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer” The Taliban : It’s free real estate

[@winter_bear4632]

😂

[@raymonlandry228]

The Taliban didn't conquer Afghanistan. They're Afghans.

[@wowbronah2581]

Hey just wanted to tell you that Jesus loves you and died on the cross for your sins and rose from the dead 3 days later. Get a relationship with God and Jesus and repent for your sins and Live for Christ and not the world and allow God and Jesus into your hearts. God and Jesus are trying to save you from going to hell. Hell is NOT a joke✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️

[@elmerayala5366]

@@Dairy654 😐

[@davidjohnston6484]

drop something from plane makes it easier dont put no ground crew on it its easy plain as day this what i would do if president

[@royzstudio5587]

“Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer” 2 weeks later: *Afghanistan gets conquered*

[@daviddebroux4708]

Actually the situation more or less came full circle: Talibani had Afghanistan since Russia tried to occupy it, now the Talibani--once again--has Afghanistan after the States pissed, shat, and blew away billions of dollars over a goose chase because some extremists blew up a couple towers and a part of the Embassy/Pentagon. God, no wonder why our government spending is fucked beyond almost all repair.

[@tomwaldman9803]

Yeah lol

[@aayushmishra7862]

Came here to comment the same 😂😂

[@mentaljason]

​@@daviddebroux4708 If you really believe the towers was the work of the middle east please lookup operation northwoods.

[@AliBaba-vw7mo]

@@daviddebroux4708 Uncle Sam wants Tali to know you can’t fuck with them without getting punished

[@MadMax-wq7zi]

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

[@bhumikanirwan5397]

One of the best KZbin page my favorite 🥰

[@DevSarman]

Afghanistan is basically a polar opposite of Poland Afghanistan: "graveyard of empires" Poland: "playground of empires"

[@mframedeye37]

Ye but every empire that ever invaded Poland is dead and defeated

[@m77mmdd19]

@@mframedeye37 every Empire is dead

[@plotsky_]

@@mframedeye37 there is an end for everything. Even the empires era.

[@plotsky_]

@@mframedeye37 the polish Didn't end those empires. Sure, they won against some, but didn't end them.

[@sciencefliestothemoon2305]

Well the Poles successfully conquered Russia. And Alexander would like to have a word about that Afghanistan graveyard

[@ashnwry4795]

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! 😬

[@info.901]

It's not about geography it's about Afghan people who never ever bow down to a foreign invasion. That's all

[@SntYvsLrnt]

"Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer" Taliban: and we took that personally

[@sumeersamarat706]

What this video ment was it is impossible to Keep hold of power in all of Afghanistan

[@jaydunn699]

So anyways We started blastin

[@pawanchandran]

"For outsiders not for insiders"

[@adrianborinsky2989]

@@sumeersamarat706 yea, if you still fight with spears and arrows maybe..

[@aldofhitler1102]

They get what was their they didn't conquered anything

[@ohshtherewego2382]

Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer- by an outside force.

[@lunakoala5053]

Why Afghanistan is impossible to hold on to after conquest - by an outside force.

[@andyw1g386]

It's not though - it was conquered by the UK back in the Empire days.

[@SE-hi3my]

@@andyw1g386 the Brits were met with a world of pain

[@andyw1g386]

@@SE-hi3my Doesn't matter - still won, still conquered it.

[@SurajSinghTomarArya]

Afganistan was ALWAYS a part of northern Indian Empire or Iranian Empire

[@Cesar-xd2vt]

Thanks!

[@notveryultraguy]

You are the first person I've ever seen do that

[@ianfortuna9385]

Not to mention the Greek empire met its expansionary end at Afghanistan because of dozens of uprisings

[@Redkodiak1994]

Same with ghangis khan

[@6dollie]

@@Redkodiak1994he died few years later and he died in Afghanistan

[@colossaltitan3546]

This has gotta be some kind of world record for how quickly something aged like milk

[@HHPYE42]

This is the worst I’ve seen somthing age also

[@Ace-uc5cj]

@@HHPYE42 it hasn’t aged well

[@Ace-uc5cj]

How has it aged well? This is referring to world powers fightjng to conquer afghanistan, not the taliban who are inherently Afghan and are very decentralized and do guerilla warfare plus knowing the geographical landscape and mountains which makes it hard for foreign powers to fight against the taliban.

[@zxh]

it aged like wine. the taliban are the people of afghanistan.

[@Ace-uc5cj]

@@zxh The Taliban aren't the people of afghanistan, they're the terrorists lol. Most people in Afghanistan specifically in rural areas don't know 9/11 happened. And how has it aged like wine? This video was strictly about how difficult it is for foreign powers to conquer afghanistan not people who live there.

[@rararasputin2307]

“ *How do you defeat an enemy who looks into the barrel of a gun and sees paradise?* ” Said by Russian Commander

[@MoonLab_Gaming]

this is some deep shit right there.

[@yummymellow3966]

America created t3rRor groups in Afghanistan

[@hezekiahgab4490]

Tuff stuff

[@Jay-qb9gi]

@@yummymellow3966 no we haven’t, you’re just pulling that out of your ass. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan created these terror groups.

[@Z3t487]

With nukes.

[@Iniquitous1]

10:33 that man smiling agh it hurts

[@holdencross322]

Real smoooth bud. Reaaaaal smooth. -_- u had to speak too soon.

[@amazingtrooper5893]

"Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer?" yeah about that...

[@art_means_artificial]

Why Afghanistan Is Impossible to Conquer ? becayse the main reason is HAOS in afganistan and not CONQUER! a couple of nukes will conquer this country for a minutes

[@eddiewheeler449]

Rrrriiiiiggggghhhhhhtttttt.

[@krishdubey2925]

BRUH THIS VIDEO IS LEGENDARY NOW

[@namanyadav8061]

@@art_means_artificial nuke will conquer any country but you can't nuke a nation because of civilians

[@gamingdeeznuts]

oh shit talibans

[@CycloneSakura]

"Why Afghanistan is impossible to Conquer" Taliban: Allow us to introduce ourselves again.

[@mueschael]

No one knows their country better than the Taliban do😅

[@agustinaramirez3115]

@@mueschael if a terrorist unprofessional without education, disorganized and slaves of a religion can conquer afganistan imagine a foreigners country rn hahahahahha

[@mueschael]

@@agustinaramirez3115 they'd all die by even trying. In contrast to the Afghan army, all western armies know what they must fight for if attacked.

[@bastianbezon2687]

@@mueschael mehh. Not really

[@matthieulachapelle135]

The thing is that Talibans live in Afghanistan so ya it is kind of true. 🙃

[@queenangel3553]

Because We never Lose Hope On Allah SWT Proud to be Afghan 💖🇦🇫💖🇦🇫💖🇦🇫💖

[@putin6934]

That would be the afghan men

[@fillerandblankspace]

RLL: why afghanistan is impossible to conquer The taliban: im gonna do whats called a pro gamer move

[@menace.20.8]

Afghan president: "Don't worry guys, i have a plan." A few moments later: "Sorry, i mean i have a plane. OMG: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE LIKES! You can reply instead of liking too, I'm feeling bored so yea.

[@HHPYE42]

LMAO

[@variousaissa3245]

Asraf:ight goodnight girl *starts engine*

[@5urg3x]

He actually drove out of the country and took all of his money and luxury cars

[@Seussenshmirtz]

*Afghan President has left the game*

[@Kovalov112]

@@Seussenshmirtz *@Taliban is now admin*

[@srikanthmeg]

There is no lesson in history without saying "The British arbitrarily drew the border"

[@heavi-armed-infadel]

Oh yes there most certainly are, you must be the product of an American liberal marxist socialist university.

[@jimmybarnes5642]

@@heavi-armed-infadel you don't get the joke?

[@Lorddonen]

@@heavi-armed-infadel it's a joke bro.

[@immortal_SO]

@@heavi-armed-infadel I can tell your good with the ladies…

[@nwokoma24]

@@jimmybarnes5642 he’s a conservative. They don’t have a sense of humor or get sarcasm.

[@leeortiz2687]

You’ve officially sold me on nebula

[@D.D.S_rohani]

Under Afghanistan mountain 🏔 is a lot of treasurers that’s why America and other country’s want to own Afghanistan 🇦🇫😭

[@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi1142]

One of the worst cases of “that didn’t age well” of all time.

[@ingo98]

How so? The video talks about external forces conquering Afghanistan. Taliban did it from within, inside out.

[@kyoumahououin5435]

@@ingo98 yea, people seem incapable of understanding that, and the fact that taliban had tons of support inside the country

[@AfricanLionBat]

@@kyoumahououin5435 thank you. People forget they had to overthrow the Taliban to take over..

[@LEFT4BASS]

You didn’t actually watch the video, did you?

[@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi1142]

I understand the Taliban take over isn’t the same kind of conquer as this video is talking about, but it’s still insane how it was taken over in any way (internally or externally) just wells after this video was posted, like cmon surely you guys understand why people think this video has perfect, or maybe not so perfect timing.

[@natedturtle]

The timing was absolutely fantastic, I challenge anybody to find a better timing for something

[@fiachra2740]

It’s not really better timing everyone knew it was coming weeks befote

[@apIthletIcc]

It's kinda cheating to call it conquered, because no military has ever truly conquered the Afghans.

[@CarsonG1017]

The recent video Tom Scott made about Tower Bridge in London, and then it getting stuck hours later

[@machintosh3008]

Plot twist: The Taliban saw this video and were like "Boutta prove you wrong bro!"

[@robertthings4335]

Someone saying George Russell will never get points with Williams before the Hungarian GP happened

[@razabadass]

Thanks :)

[@youtub-fj8mu]

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.

[@arthas640]

People tend to ignore the Greek, North Indian, Iranian, Turkic, Arabic, Huns, or Scythians who all conquered the country successfully. The country was basically ruled by Greeks for most of the classical period and spent most of its history as a frontier for various Iranian empires before it was conquered by Turkic/Mongolian empires for nearly all of the medieval and modern period, ironically it mainly gained independence thanks to Russian and British imperialism and their squabbling made Afghanistan more valuable as a border state than a colony so neither of them tried too hard to secure it since Russia mainly just wanted to keep the British out of Central Asia and the British mainly just wanted to keep raiders and the Russians out of India but neither of them really wanted Afghanistan all that much. The country as we picture it today is largely a 19th century invention, it's spent most of its history as a frontier for Iranian and Indian empires since it's basically just a highway between Northern India and Iran which is part of why Pashtuns were scattered randomly from eastern Iran across Afghanistan north into the other -stan countries like Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan east into Pakistan and party way into India. Really the only countries to truly fail in Afghanistan failed in part because they never sought to conquer it but rather create a nation out of nothing. The British tried to install their usual colonial puppet ruler and got kicked out, the Russians/Soviets started a massive civil war through shitty policies and put an unpopular dictator in power as a puppet and stabbed him in the back, then the Americans tried to sort out a 50 year long civil war while also contending with building a modern state out of a medieval government based around tribal affiliations and bizarre social customs that few even in the region understand. The British, Russians, and even the Americans are all actually great at conquest since that's fundamentally different than creating a state out of nothing. The Russians and Americans for example were great at conquering a region, forcing the locals out and assimilating those who remained, move in settlers from your ethnic group in to replace the locals and set up your own people to run the new state. Building a state from nothing though is more complicated: you need to find skilled administrators in a country that cant run itself, train technicians and administrators to handle every aspect of running a modern state, you need to get the citizens on board, you have to set up a government that can work for the local area/local culture, you need to mold the ideals of the people to conform to at least some of your own values as well to keep the country friendly to you, you need to prevent separatist movements, revolutions, and coups, build a functioning police force and military, build a self sustaining economy out of some goat herders and subsistence farmers, create commerce and trade out of nothing, and do about a million other things and looking at post colonial Africa we can see just how many hurdles that involves. It's a process that often takes decades even with help inside and outside the country: it took Japan (an already peaceful, centralized state with a relatively well education population, and a thriving culture and sustainable economy) around 15 years to really break off the last dregs of the Edo period, then it took around 30 years of breakneck speed reforms to turn the country from a late medieval/early modern country into a modern state and even then they devolved into a military dictatorship pretty quickly once they lost a skilled statesman like emperor Meiji.

[@Dylan-qy5tc]

"Why Afghanistan Is Impossible to Conquer" The Taliban: "So anyway, I started blasting"

[@cakeman904]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭

[@dnajournal4321]

Taliban are local Afghans...

[@agustinaramirez3115]

@@dnajournal4321 if a terrorist unprofessional without education, disorganized and slaves of a religion can conquer afganistan imagine a foreigners country rn hahahahahha

[@captsirl]

Its Afghanistan that will not fight the talibán. So its Afghanistan. Get un woke.

[@dnajournal4321]

@@captsirl The Taliban ARE Afghans. And they would like to thank Europe and USA for all the free blackhawk helicopters and amazing tanks.

[@daffaibnuhafidz720]

THIS COULDNT HAVE COME IN A MORE PERFECT TIMING

[@crand20033]

Biden did the right thing. We don't want Afghanistan we already achieved our objectives.

[@Qaz77]

@@crand20033 taliban will be a global threat

[@amberlewis012]

@@crand20033 I honestly liked Biden a lot at first, but honestly...All this does not make him look good. And yes, the Taliban themselves said that they want to conquer the entire world....So...Good luck.

[@peeweedinosuar3281]

@@Qaz77 the taliban has no global intentions. They want thier land. And want us out of thier land

[@marcoszavala8435]

@@crand20033 I agree we should leave, but the way he did it was embarrassing.

[@xkr9565]

This AGED REALLY WELL I SEE

[@muslimarozi5610]

Hi I like your video and I am Turkmen from Afghanistan 🇹🇲🇵🇰🇦🇫

[@N_ei_L]

*"Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer"* Taliban: *Hold my rifle*

[@youtubeshorts-ht7rw]

😂

[@BEST_EDITS33]

Ikr ITS CLEARLY BEEN CONQUERED/ Imao 🙃🤣🤣🤣🤣😂 ( and btw I'm not laughing bout the fact that it's been conquered but the fact of real life lore sayin/ why afgan can never be conquered/ 🤣

[@coreyvaughn-patterson2668]

Having 80% of your country taken control of by members of the local population is not conquering.

[@dhruvalnaik6937]

@@BEST_EDITS33 Yeah.. but nothing to laugh about.... The evil Taliban has destoryed the democarcy. I can't imagine the fate of the people of Afghanistan in the next few years, especially because the Taliban supports practices like forced religious conversion and oppression of women.. lets hope the democracy is restored soon....

[@dhruvalnaik6937]

@@coreyvaughn-patterson2668 I think its 100% now.. The president has fleed the country as the democracy has surrendered to the taliban militants

[@lilyfeng6598]

Your talking speed is faster than a regular news reporter. Therefor I pressed cc button that is talking a totally different things.

[@kronozoid2248]

“Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer” Literally every comment

[@nubberton1345]

“Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer” Literally every reply

[@moopmop-yx2vi]

"Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer" Literally every reply

[@alltales]

“Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer” Literally every reply

[@chilln0648]

Why do none of the replies have likes?

[@drazey1764]

@@chilln0648 why did you have to break it

[@daystriker1680]

The timing of this vid was amazing and it was conquered 11 days later

[@AROSTARctb10]

Afghanistan: haha I can't be invaded Mongol Empire: Am I a joke to you

[@eonthinker100yrago8]

Mongols conquered northern Afghanistan yes,but never managed to conquer the main Pashtun heartland.after conquering the northern territories they went westwards towards Iran.

[@migelangeldejesusquinterog4584]

The timurid empire and the mughals made this accomplishment.

[@robinchettri6966]

Afghanistan : "No one can conquer me" Poland : "Is it possible to learn this power?"

[@imperatormaximus8952]

Afghanistan: Not from a European.

[@lucianboar3489]

grow some more mountains

[@bpn_2099]

Once upon a time Afghanistan was a part of Sikh empire.

[@johnlucas2838]

Be an opiate producer

[@karanveersingh3428]

@@bpn_2099 😂😂😂😂

[@Nuppersson]

You know you are screwed when: - the snow speaks finnish - the trees speak vietnamese - The graveyard speaks russian - the mountains speak pashto

[@70_Bheta]

Most successful countries to war with guerilla strategies.

[@iancruz6617]

South korea in vietnam: Why the water speaking.

[@RonyAndArabGuy]

Immune to viruses speak greenland

[@yolooo5081]

@@iancruz6617 You meant took only highly trained warriors and put them up against random starving people. I heard the South Korean did war crimes in Vietnam, but right now the South Korean probably focus more on apologies from the Japanese.

[@DusanStev996]

What's the point with the graveyard and speaking Russian? First time I hear about this one

[@amanjabubakir8029]

No country will embrace any kind of tension without a filthy hand of a conqueror.

[@mastrxl]

That Poland example sounded absurd untill I remembered the Iron Curtain an the Berlin Wall...

[@coryholliday8473]

RealLifeLore: "Why Afghanistan is impossible to conquer" Taliban: "Hold my goat"

[@user-yb4ub1wc2g]

I am from Afghanistan and this is funny 😂

[@user-fu4mp3fu3g]

Bro in Afghanistan just one city left we are not conquered they have to take panjshir to conquer Afghanistan 🤣

[@korinostream]

@@user-fu4mp3fu3g are you crying inside or smthn

[@OmarKhanMOK]

You do realise Taliban are an indigenous group? The video was obviously implying that external forces would find it infeasible to conquer Afghanistan, with Taliban themselves being one of the main reasons.

[@Death-ef4hw]

They'd give you their goat for two of their daughters.

[@frocco7125]

RealLifeLore: “Why Afghanistan can’t be conquered” Taliban: "Challenge accepted."

[@sadiqsd7800]

How is it conquest when Taliban are Afghans themself

[@oneonlywaleed235]

@@sadiqsd7800 why you waffling

[@lineialquantum]

@@sadiqsd7800 because they didn’t actually watch the video and still don’t understand what is really going on there

[@oneonlywaleed235]

@@northscrow9316 u mean what about Pakistanis

[@echidnanatsuki882]

@@sadiqsd7800 I hate to be that guy but... wooooossshhhhhhh

[@MRRookie232]

Only an American would call France a small country lol. For us, it’s huge in relative terms. Thanks for the video

[@SantiagoGeffen]

Metropolitan France is the size of an Argentine province or a Brazilian state. European countries are very small compared to American countries.

[@kingnut]

The road from bagram to kabul was rebuilt so many times. It would have massive potholes after 1 winter.

[@jwly4809]

I am legitimately convinced that the talibans watched this video before they attacked.

[@unclerico1106]

It's basically guerrilla warfare. Big armies have always had trouble with this.

[@afghanistan1602]

but the taliban are just the outcast soviet goventment that controled afghanistan

[@moggingyou]

@@unclerico1106 why can’t they just use heat maps and jets?

[@sardiidrus6240]

They never attacked this time..the current president is a coward and running away with a bag of cash to Tajikistan

[@unclerico1106]

@@moggingyou this was explained, it comes down to terrain when invading Afghanistan. Actually a couple of countries would be hard as shit to fight. North korea is pretty hard to invade aswell.

[@ryokajimosensei2780]

"Why Afghanistan is Impossible to Conquer" Taliban: "AKs and Toyotas go brrrr"

[@LEFT4BASS]

It’s obvious you didn’t watch the video before you commented.

[@destinationskyline07]

Ak47s FOR EVERYONE!!!!

[@games4us132]

@@destinationskyline07 ak47 is a fcn BEAST!

[@kevinmurray2551]

@@destinationskyline07 I caught the generals reference

[@sadeksama5057]

Taliban are afghans they didn't conquer they liberated their land from foreigners This video is talking about how Afghanistan is impossible to conquer by foreign countries

[@apoorvashukla6327]

a country with no future and nothing to lose and nothing to cherish can never be conqured

[@bryxite]

perfect timing

[@HenriNotHenry]

"Imagine if Poland was divided between Germany and Russia" Sounds familiar...

[@appleslover]

It was intentional, nothing original nowadays 🙁😪😒

[@fbbinoire201]

but Poland was conquered by every European power 😂

[@koraptd6085]

@@fbbinoire201 g8 b8 m8

[@fbbinoire201]

@@koraptd6085 f8 k8 y8 u8

[@jonathanl5567]

Molotov Ribbentrop is typing...

[@Blownapart23]

“Imagine if Germany and Russia divided Poland.” Oh I don’t have to imagine that

[@goose8948]

My comment

[@goose8948]

My comment

[@goose8948]

My comment

[@goose8948]

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[@goose8948]

My comment

[@1-Yumi.]

We heard that more than once

[@klintkaos]

Those mountains contain 3 trillion or more of rare minerals, so other than opuim that's what foreign nations want

[@aviationlba747]

“Why Afghanistan Is Impossible To Conquer” Taliban: “Hold our AK-47s”

[@AheadMatthewawsome]

Taliban: bumper cars go bump bump

[@sadeksama5057]

Taliban are afghans He means conquer by a foreign power

[@zuhraghani6905]

Taliban haven't conquer afghanistan first go and search meaning of conquer

[@a2a918]

@@AheadMatthewawsome to

[@MosquitoValentineNH]

@Sadek Sama The only reason Afghanistan is “impossible to conquer” is because these foreign countries arbitrarily artificially hold back their own military power, enabling and ensuring stalemate or “defeat”. It’s a joke to think there’s ANY other reason why Afghanistan is “impossible to conquer” other than the fact foreign militaries operate w/ the handicap of being run by modern western society/morality VS 8th century barbarians. *IF the US wanted to- Afghanistan would be conquered in months, weeks, or even days!* ..imagine if the US military actually engaged in warfare like all others did for most of human history, where NO FOREIGN MILITARY ever dreamed of holding back on an enemy or foreign land they decided to conquer just because they could.. no mercy.. every home & temple demolished.. every man, woman, child, & beast slaughtered.. every crop burned.. scorched earth.. -you know like the TALIBAN STILL operates! The FACT IS: no one is actually attempting to “conquer” Afghanistan, and instead are simply attempting to tame/civilize!.. which YES, has been proven time and time again- to be IMPOSSIBLE!