Russia lost to Afghanistan

>Russia lost to Afghanistan
>Alexander lost to Afghanistan
>USA is still fighting in Afghanistan today

What is their secret?

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Shitton of mountains and caves.

Mountains
Sand
No fresh water supplies

caves, mountains, desert, and no real reason to control it outside making roads to other places safer

importing unlimited foreign fighters. Locals hated both sides.

Allah is with them obviusly.

Pennies and raisins. Bags of sand.

>Not knowing Tim Osman was CIA
You probably still think his name IS Osama bin Laden.

Kek bad bait you lib!

>Russia lost to Afghanistan
To the USA armed proto Al-Quaeda you mean. And to traitor Gorbachev.
>USA is still fighting in Afghanistan today
Helping them expand CIA backed opiate production is not what i call fighting.

>>Alexander lost to Afghanistan
no he didn't. he got as far as Punjab.

a neo-soviet russian on /pole/. why am I not surprised?

countless poorly armed caveniggers ready to fight for allah till the day come

Punjab is in India

live 5 thousand years in the past in tribal communities where none of them get along or want to be unified

also helps that whatever treaties you do decide on only last for a year or so at lost after that stab the other group in the back

Winning a war doesn't mean ending the conflict. It sucks to be the winner if your defeated enemy never signs any peace treaty or commit to it. Civilized wars end because
involved all parties want them to end, there is not much the winner can do if the bunch of Afghan sheep herders just decide to keep fighting against the civilized rules of warfare.

because no world power or standing army can ever defeat a low intensity native insurgency, imbedded in local populations and using the landscape to launch guerrila attacks. Without using nukes that is

Watch Restrepo and you will find out.

being sand niggers in hole. Ask youself. How do you win there? whaat is the end goal?

you cant win there

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This. The terrain is fucked for any kind of normalized warfare.

I'll jab your poon

Alexander married an Afghan princess after his conquest there.

American money.

Looking weak and neat terrain

Similar situation was in the Balkans during WW2, if you look at the map of occupied areas in Yugoslavia it's literally a spideweb looking thing

>his conquest
No, king Poorus of india defeated alexander

Being a gigantic desert with nothing in it but arabs and caves.

>hard terrain
>hard soldiers
>radical ideology

Too many half measures. Not any real Total War.

Sauce?

it's unsustainable to feed a large military force in that environment. You would need to build a small country with infrastructure within Afgan and then spread out. It can't be done from overseas.It's like trying to fight from room to room inside a tower block filled with rubble full of people of different tribes and beliefs.

Endurance.

No fucking brains but an economy and country which can produce a lot of military.

Also Bongland lost there a couple of times.

The United States is well aware of the upcoming cataclysmic Global disaster, we are positioning large amounts of soldiers and forward operating bases along with combat outposts to ensure that there will be Americans in all corners of the world because 98% of the total population will be wiped out. We will have a fighting force , constitution and land no matter what happens to this planet.

his ass, there's no reason to believe the guy in the photo is Bin Laden

Way to forget about the English, OP.

This. If a country wanted to win a war in Afghanistan, they would have to wipe it completely off the map.

Can’t win a war when your entire country has been genocided.

Russia did not lose. They were quite succesful and gained a fair amount of anti insurgency skills before the americans could count to 3. They basically left as CIA intentionally funded extremist islamists to counter the growing democracy supported by russia. Now we sew Afghan today and see what that resulted in .

Desert isn’t the real issue, it’s the forests and snowy mountains that fuck everything up. It’s the same reason you can’t invade switzerland

Geography aside, a big factor is that the enemy is within the civilian population.
If you effectively wanted to fuck up Afghanistan, you'd need to genocide most of the people and scorch the earth.
The USA partly went that way with Vietnam, but ultimately failed because of bad press and the country simply not being worth the ressources. Good that the U.S can use their NATO buttslaves now to keep regions occupied.

i actually don't understand how the Soviets lost in Afghanistan .. they never gave a shit, they took fire from a village, they exterminated the whole village. I know you're not supposed to do that shit anymore cause you lose hearts and minds and turns the populace against you, but they could just kill that populace too, that's how it was always done for thousands of years. Was it really as simple as a few Jihadis running around with Stinger Missiles?

i guess as long as there's 1 asshole left in the whole country who doesn't care about you taking revenge on civilians and doesn't care if he dies as long as he gets a shot at you , you can never say you "won"...

You make it sound like killing people who live without electricity or infrastructure is easy, it’s actually harder. They were already guerrillas before they even started fighting us.

>Russia lost to Afghanistan
with american and pakistan help
>USA is loosing with other powers help
people dont realise that other powers will fuck with each other in that way and every insurgency has a major backer
mountains a relative spread out population are also good

>What is their secret?

It's their fucking country.

The land and the people are not worth fight over or for.

same in vietnam

that is stupid the land is rich in rare earth minerals and it borders on major powers like russia and china its worth it

>Decency lost in Afghanistan

"Alexander lost to Afghanistan"

???????????

podesta likes a little bacha bazi himself

>Afghanistan
it's literally just a few cities worth defending and the rest is wildlings in caves

you can't win win, you can only have a strategy to keep Kabul going as a pretty nice place and call that a win

basically keeping the wildlings down and not giving them the resources of a whole state is a win

AND this is gonna become easier if Saudi Arabia reforms itself and takes deradicalization seriously

Half the major cities in Afghanistan were founded by Alexander you mong. How is that losing?

The key is the terrain

>Vodka nigger complains about heroin trade
First of all CIA doesn't support in force or hardware any drug cartel just their money flow. Secondly to bitch about US is ridiculous as you Soviets invented Aids and spread then over America

What the fuck is slush?

Slush
(N) A person who is extremely whorish and who drinks too much alcohol.

What is the definition of victory there? There is nothing to "win".

>le CIA opiate trade
When will this meme die

You need to use scorched earth tactics against them. But not only all modern militaries are cucked beyond recovery, these things also for some reason considered "human" and kikes, women and women (male) will screech if you treat them with good old scorched earth.

they look a bit dirty to be sitting on the all white

>home turf
>fanatics
>life of hardship
>decadent rulers
>people think of nothing but themselves

mountains are incredibly difficult terrain for armies, it has always been that way. There is a reason that mountain specialist troops (e.g. gebirgsjager, alpini) are universally considered elite.

t. CIA nigger