Why does every empire have the urge to invade this pedophile shithole?

Why does every empire have the urge to invade this pedophile shithole?

le graveyard of empires meme incoming

It's literally the crossroads of the world. Not valuable in itself, but valuable in what you can connect to from there.

Is there a bigger historical meme? Shows how much influence the Anglo propaganda has on historical research.

I'd say a lot more empires didn't invade the place than did.

Dat prime boipucci

Its the junction between the Middle East, India, and the Far East, so, not surprisingly, invading armies often found themselves marching through it.

It lost its importance during the colonial period when people stopped giving a shit about accessing asia through its interior

British Empire, Soviet Union and the USA all lost a shit tonne of prestige in that area in-particular.
Those are the three most consequential nations in living memory.

They had really good breeds of Steppe nig horses that aren’t pure manlets.

It's simply in the way.

The Ferghana stallion is from Ferghana. Currently shared by various central Asian countries.

Pretty much the only way to get from Middle East to India is through Cyber Pass.

Opium I guess

I don't think the British lost any prestige trying to keep it out of Russian hands, just resources.

>British lost any prestige
If they had they would be in a prestige debt now

tin

copious amounts of it. The region has always been full of resources and rare metals.

Drug trade.
Where do you think heroin comes from?

CIA funded.

Those pedophilic tendencies were brought over from the West (if you consider Alexander and Hellenism to be western doctrine albeit ancient ones)

right in the middle of China, Russia, India, and the middle east

No they weren’t. They were created by a strict interpretation of Islam where men aren’t even allowed to talk to women outside of their immediate family except for their wife. And many of them don’t even marry, or are too horny to wait until marriage, so out of sexual frustration they turn to little boys instead.

It's way older than islam.

Well it was on the silk road and was always just sorta in empires paths
In the Victorian Era the UK and Russia wanted it because colonialism
The soviets intervened to save its puppet state in 1979 because of a fear that if Islamists took over Afghanistan then central asia would be next
And the US invaded because it was believed Osama was there

You just pulled that Soviet thing out of your ass. Radical islamism didn't exist in Afghanistan before Soviet invasion.

>le victim complex

Probably because it's at the center of the world's largest landmass, and connects major population centers

This is true

It's hard to get there and it's surrounded by powerful kingdoms, any incoming force would be exhausted by the time they met these goatfuckers