PRECIOUS METALS AND MINING
At stake in US military efforts to stabilize Afghanistan: At least $3 trillion in natural resources
- The U.S. has spent upwards of $700 billion on Afghanistan’s war, and the Trump administration is hoping to recoup some of that via its vast mineral wealth.
- An Afghan spokesperson told CNBC that Trump’s attention to the country could be a ‘strategic win-win’ for both.
- A recent study pegged natural resources in the country as worth at least $3 trillion, but the Taliban remains a key hurdle to any development efforts.
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Squirrelboy85: Lithium, Gold, Neodymium. Thats whybwe are still there. Plus dont forget about all the opium
WarOfNoise: another entity we also might want to focus on: Dyncorp International and their owner, Stephen Feinberg.
“Stephen Feinberg, the billionaire financier who owns the military contractor DynCorp International, is informally advising Trump on Afghanistan, according to a report in The New York Times, which said the company may potentially play a role in safeguarding American mining operations.”
ClassicFives: Gotta get those rare earth metals. Same reason China is buying land across Africa.
rayrayww3: Of course NBC portrays this as a Trump move.
This has been a motive for decades. Well, that and the [West-controlled pipelines.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan%E2%80%93Afghanistan%E2%80%93Pakistan%E2%80%93India_Pipeline)
Bush, Obama, Trump. All playing the same neocon global-takeover game.
armorkingII: Good. May as well get something out of this beside an expensive bill, dead bodies, and opium.
BanMikePantsNow: It is also a good place to run transnational pipelines.
Nogrim6: while this is true, I personally think it has more to do with the silkroad 2.0 highway project.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/china-new-silk-road-explainer/
I mean its rather convienient how conflicts have broken out all along the route, that seem to show a pattern of US involvement…
the US see this as a threat because it essentially removes importance of ocean trade routes (something they have focused their forces on for decades)
sHaDowpUpPetxxx: Yeah, there are giant containers of the shit. You just hacer to level up your r & d enough so they can develop a Fulton extraction system strong enough to lift them out.
Whaddaya Say?