Woah...Really makes you think

>>67799265
wonder why it didn't get swallowed up by the british or russians

>>67799521
You answered it yourself. British and Russians. A buffer zone. The British prevented the Russians from taking over.

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that is not correct map

>>67799593
the british invaded it three times though afaik

>>67799743
Yeah, to install puppet regimes which they did.

>>67799521
The British Set up a protectorate in Tibet and dabbled in Central Asian politics.

But in the end Chinkdom and Ivangrad won the great game.

>>67800007
Britain won the Great Game by every logical metric.

>>67799961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War

>>67800249
I don't see what your point is. The Afghan regime was a British puppet for a long time, up until the Third Anglo-Afghan War which you linked.

The British only cared about protecting British India, and the Russians were creeping up. So they made Afghanistan a buffer, and Russia agreed. Without Britain, Russia would definitely not have stopped at Afghanistan, they would have gotten it too.

>>67800332
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet-Afghan_War

>>67800094
Lad, I was talking of the game going way past post WWI. British influence in the Area was laughable.

>>67799265
Why is Qing China written inside the PRC borders?