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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“hoax that Afghanistan had rare minerals”
russia has biolabs… the US has rate earth minerals…. Vive la difference!
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Biolabs immediately came to my mind, too. 😆
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They’re probably right next to the weapons of mass destruction 😛
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And the biolabs. Let’s not forget those.
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The Boer war was justified in terms of spreading democracy, when it was obvious that the main target was SA’s gold mines. The similar rhetoric was very likely noticed by SA’s government with regard to Iraq’s oil. I suspect this has a lot to do with the alliance with Russia, which has the second largest platinum reserves after SA.
https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/precious-metals-investing/platinum-investing/top-platinum-palladium-producing-countries/
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