Afghanistan may or may not be a graveyard of empires, but it sure is a graveyard of modern universalist governing ideologies. White-Man's-Burden colonialism? Soviet central government? Democracy-planting? Turns out, not so universal.
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Unless, of course, your universalist ideology is that the Great Tengri has chosen Chinggis Khan and his successors to rule the world. That worked just fine in Afghanistan. Lots of other places too. Maybe we need to put horse archers in the next FM 3-24.pic.twitter.com/0PtPZj73tu
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @BretDevereaux
Are you suggesting that Mongolia should assert its hegemony over Afghanistan?
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Well, we need to answer an important question first, which is if the current president of Mongolia is a direct, patrilineal descendant of Chinggis Khan. Otherwise, he's not going to have the backing of the Great Tengri, which sort of defeats the point.
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That would be a stroke of luck right through the manifestation of the state, and not likely. The state would most likely need to subjugate itself to the will of a carefully selected hier candidate.
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I mean, it's not THAT improbable. A lot of Mongolians today are descended from Chinggis Khan. And technically a near miss might still work - the Mughals controlled Afghanistan and they claimed descent from Timur who in turn could, at best, claim to be Chinggis-adjacent.
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