However, the British were not happy for long. This treaty instead incited anti-British sentiment among the Afghans and devolved into a sustained uprising war.
The United Kingdom's quagmire in Afghanistan was actually good news for Spain, as it had enough time to develop the Congo Territory without worrying about British intervention.
In later times, there is a joke about oil giving rise to the US military. In fact, in this era, there was a similar anecdote about gold breeding the British army.
The British Empire owned the most extensive colonies in the world, and these were not acquired peacefully, but through waves of colonial and aggressive wars.
The gold rush in the Congo Territory had already formed. If the British were not tied up in Afghanistan, they might have found a way to cause trouble for Spain or dispatched colonial teams to establish their own footholds in the Congo River Basin.
Now that the British were occupied, Spain had ample time to complete its plans.
