I think that it is all planned and, as has been the case since the 1880s, empires will continue to vie for "control" of the resources in that country. Namely, the poppy fields and deniable assets in the form of ever-present bogeymen they can use as target practice for their state-wielded terror campaigns.

The empires of China, the USA, the UK, Germany and Russia must forever leave Afghanistan to Afghans.