Two years under Taliban rule in Afghanistan: ‘I never thought the world would forget about us so quickly’ - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    You can go back to Alexander the Great. Mountainous regions have always been notoriously hard to control with other regions like the Caucasus and the Balkans as examples. They tend to be fragmented and loosely connected.