PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
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And yet, he's dead, but we're still there. Why? Do we really think we're going to do better at the whole nation-building thing than we were in Iraq?
Rare Earth metals are the real reason we've kept trying to hold onto A-stan.It's about money and ideology. The military generals wants to jerk their tiny peckers over fighting a war, any war will do, and the left wants a war to bemoan and protest while keeping it rolling, and the military industry goes without saying.
What about the opium?Rare Earth metals are the real reason we've kept trying to hold onto A-stan.
There are a bunch of deposits in of them in A-stan, and we'd very much like to keep them out of Chinese or Iranian hands.
Plus, A-stan has a border with China, so I think there are strategic implications to the bases thier which don't get mentioned to the public.
Nah, that's a secondary issue at most, and we can make synthetic opioids without any real problem these days.What about the opium?
Nah, that's a secondary issue at most, and we can make synthetic opioids without any real problem these days.
IIRC, we did try to shut down the opuim growers/drug cartels in A-stan, and lost a lot of troops to attacks by drug lords who were independent of the Taliban. They eventually had to call off the drug enforcent actions because they couldn't fight the Taliban and drug dealers at the same time.
Chinese companies are already grabbing the rights to Afganistan mineral resources, so USA is basically footing the security and infrastructure bill for Chinese business.Rare Earth metals are the real reason we've kept trying to hold onto A-stan.
There are a bunch of deposits in of them in A-stan, and we'd very much like to keep them out of Chinese or Iranian hands.
Plus, A-stan has a border with China, so I think there are strategic implications to the bases thier which don't get mentioned to the public.
This isn't true. Rare earth metals, despite the name, aren't actually all that rare. China has a shitton of them, and was producing 97% of the world's rare earth metals. Then they decided to try to use the monopoly (saying that products using the rare earth metals needed some foriegn investment or something), and it quickly turned out that China didn't really have any monopolstic power through rare earth metals, as across the globe new mines opened up. Eventually China gave up on the regulations, as it got them nowhere.Rare Earth metals are the real reason we've kept trying to hold onto A-stan.
There are a bunch of deposits in of them in A-stan, and we'd very much like to keep them out of Chinese or Iranian hands.
Plus, A-stan has a border with China, so I think there are strategic implications to the bases thier which don't get mentioned to the public.
Yep, Rare Earths are often found alongside radioactive ores.To my recollection, one of the main things with Rare Earths is that they're usually partly Thorium ores, so a lot of countries fucked off because "Muh radioactivity" rather than not actually having access. At least they are in China, being the main source of their fuckhuge stockpile of the stuff.
Honestly, at this point we're our own worst enemy. Putin could never hurt us more than we've hurt ourselves.Our enemies not pulling punches
The spate of Anti-Asian American violence continues Online.
The hateful tweet was deleted but it still lives on... in screenshots.
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That's really the most retarded post if they knew who Andy was.
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