When people talk about colonialism being the thing which made so much of the world worse, let’s all remember that Afghanistan was never a victim of colonialism and it’s pretty much the worst country in the world.
Well having the Russians and British conduct occasional invasions and power plays in the court all throughout the 1800s, preventing any sort of stable government, along with an occupation that objectively caused the greatest movement of urbanization since the Indochinese conflicts is colonialism.