PsihoKekec
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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.
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
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.
huh sounds very much like the war on drugs at home.
PsihoKekec
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Chinese companies are already grabbing the rights to Afganistan mineral resources, so USA is basically footing the security and infrastructure bill for Chinese business.
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.
This was predicted here:
China's doomed attempt to hold the world to ransom
Or why your job won't be following the rare earth trail
www.theregister.com
And then the guy had an "I called it" article here:
El Reg man: Too bad, China - I was RIGHT about hoarding rare earths
A monopoly isn't enough, you have to be able to use it
www.theregister.com
Morphic Tide
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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.
Yep, Rare Earths are often found alongside radioactive ores.
I know of one that has a very large amount of radium and thorium, along with a lot of rare-earth gems and literal boulders of lithium ores, that was shut down after a couple years because the rads were so high the safety gear needed was more expensive than the ore was worth.
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Terthna
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Honestly, at this point we're our own worst enemy. Putin could never hurt us more than we've hurt ourselves.
Doomsought
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The spate of Anti-Asian American violence continues Online.
The hateful tweet was deleted but it still lives on... in screenshots.
kek
The hateful tweet was deleted but it still lives on... in screenshots.
kek
Arch Dornan
Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
That's really the most retarded post if they knew who Andy was.
I know he's Vietnamese but Malaysian surnames don't have Ngo in them?
Pretty obviously he was thinking of the other Asian guy on the Twitters, Ian Miles Chong. But mistaking every Asian for Andy Ngo is par for course with the Left it seems.
Maybe that's behind the spate of recent hate crimes by Blacks on Asians?
BANZAI!
"Support BLACK FEMINIST organizations!"
Funny how they included that line. Not "Support these asian districts", not "support these asian organization", it's the same old tune from afro-american Social Justice Warriors as always: Gibmedat!