There was this hoax that Afghanistan had rare minerals to the tune of 1 trillion dollars. And I mean, it actually has but they are too expensive to extract, so they are there but not in any useful sort of way. The reason why the hoax was created was to explain why the US needed to go and spend 20 years in Afghanistan. The plebs was deemed unable to understand anything beyond this narrative, which is why it was concocted.
Since that same plebs has the memory span of a guppy fish, there is a distant possibility that the same hoax can be created around the equally mythical rare-earth minerals in some other geographic area. Not that I would know where it might be located or anything.
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