Typical. Demand we go to electric cars and prevent mining the minerals necessary for electric cars. We also gave away our access to rare earths when we fled from Afghanistan and gave away much of our domestic assets necessary for chips and batteries and such. Poverty for the People seems to be the goal here.
We also gave away our access to rare earths when
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Bill Clinton did that in the 90s when he closed down the major US rare earth mine and turned it into a National Preserve.
No one is going to mine that mineral in Afghan for a real long time - no trained labor, tribal Afghanis in the area can’t count or tell left from right, and depart for days or more right after they get paid