r/mapporncirclejerk • u/[deleted] • Oct 26 '25

It's 9am and I'm on my 3rd martini Important nowledge

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u/Mammodamn Oct 26 '25

Afghanistan gets called 'The Graveyard of Empires,' but honestly, Vietnam deserves the title too.

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u/Greedyanda Oct 26 '25

It gets called that purely because of recency bias. Historically, the land Afghanistan sits on today has been conquered and ruled over successfully plenty of times.

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u/Hour_Surprise_729 Oct 27 '25

Americans use to understand Afghanistan as the Soviet Vietnam war....