The city of Kandahar is named after Alexander the Great so I am not sure where you got the idea that he bypassed Afghanistan.
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I doubt it. The Chinese will make deals with the Taliban. They have no real problem with anything that goes on inside Afghanistan as long as they get their rare earth minerals to make iPhones. The Taliban will make some good coin on the transactions, selling their mining rights cheaply, and they will make sure that no airplanes bump into Chinese real estate.
It’s kind of a tortured analogy, given that the invading Taliban will be the ones committing genocide.
But the Taliban’s future neighbor Pakistan will have every interest in keeping Afghanistan a Taliban-ruled narco-caliphate. Pakistan’s whole defense plan hinges on a weak, hobbled Afghanistan, in their minds, to avoid encirclement. The failure to address Afghanistan-Pakistan-India as a system was a major failing of US foreign policy for last 20 years.
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once upon a time it was pakistan funneling them money ( and probably iran and russia ) these days it’s apparently more saudi arabia, foreign companies paying bribes and extortion to do business there, individual donors, and profits from mining and drugs
the taliban also wouldn’t exist without all of our military equipment past and present that they “liberated” from us. made worse by invading the country and sticking bases full of supplies right there
the taliban isn’t just an afghan generated problem. it’s just that trying to solve it militarily was always a terrible idea. it continually breathed life into the networks that feed them even as we tried to kill the individuals involved
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The Taliban won’t let pre-Islamic heritage stand in the way of mining.
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