[CharlesMartelsGhost]

True, but will an infrastructure ever be developed to acquire the minerals and will the security ever be such to justify the risk to human life and infrastructure assets?

FYI:

The surveys verified all the major Soviet finds. Afghanistan may hold 60 million tons of copper, 2.2 billion tons of iron ore, 1.4 million tons of rare earth elements such as lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, and lodes of aluminum, gold, silver, zinc, mercury and lithium. For instance, the Khanneshin carbonatite deposit in Afghanistan’s Helmand province is valued at $89 billion, full as it is with rare earth elements.

....In 2010, the USGS data attracted the attention of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO), which is entrusted with rebuilding Afghanistan. The task force valued Afghanistan’s mineral resources at $908 billion, while the Afghan government’s estimate is $3 trillion. [Gold Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Gold Mining?]

Link: https://www.livescience.com/47682-rare-earth-minerals-found-under-afghanistan.html

[Truthoverpower]

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This is true

[caww]

The only way that the minerals etc. can ever be obtained there is taking the population out as refugees as they've been doing in Africa where they seek them. China sits back while we do the heavy lifting then comes in for the kill like a benevolent father. Doesn't try and change them, just sets them up in such a way as to confiscate the areas when the time is right.