1919: The British Empire loses a humiliating war with Afghanistan.
1945: The British Empire ends.

1979: Russians invade Afghanistan.
1991: Communism and superpower status collapses in Russia.

1996: Pakistan’s Taliban takes Kabul.
2010s: Pakistan’s terror groups virtually take over Pakistan. Disintegration countdown begins.

2001: America invades Afghanistan.
2015: Proves to be longest war in the history of America with 2300 Americans dead and 22,000 injured. 10,000 US troops still in Afghanistan as the long-term effects of this are uncertain.

© Sunil Rajguru