First the Russians tried to control Afghanistan for 11(?) years and failed. Then the US tried to control Afghanistan for 20 years and failed.

A lot of these places so-called "superpowers" try to get involved with have strife and internal squabbles that are hundreds and even thousands of years old... the notion that someone can just walk in and say "Y'all play nice, now!" and it solves the underlying rifts is pretty much absurd...

So sayeth the cat...

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