Taliban Secures World’s Largest Lithium Deposits After US Withdrawal From Afghanistan

Deep Politics ^ | 26 August 2021

[amorphous]

Taliban Secures World’s Largest Lithium Deposits After US Withdrawal From Afghanistan

It’s been more than a decade since we penned “The US “Discovers” Nearly $1 Trillion In Mineral Deposits In Afghanistan” in which we highlighted the colossal untapped mineral deposits that reside in Afghanistan.

President Joe Biden’s decision to rapidly and completely withdraw from Afghanistan makes even less strategic sense if readers go back to our 2010 post where we quoted “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: Part 2, the 21st Century paradigm”? Which said,

“Yet the American officials also recognize that the mineral discoveries will almost certainly have a double-edged impact. Instead of bringing peace, the newfound mineral wealth could lead the Taliban to battle even more fiercely to regain control of the country.”

We continued:

“Which is why it will be best to have the US military not only stay in Afghanistan indefinitely but to get a million man reinforcement surge.”

Readers have known for a while Afghanistan was never about the opium trade or the war on terror but rather the massive deposit of minerals essential for renewable energies.

So in the Economic Hit Man context, why would the Biden administration suddenly pull out of Afghanistan after 20 years if the play all along was about securing rare earth metals?

We don’t want to speculate the Biden administration’s intentions, nor do we have any idea. Still, one thing is sure is that the Taliban now control the world’s largest lithium deposits is becoming friendly with China.

[amorphous]

What country benefits by our abandoning Afghanistan?

What country likely has the goods on our current leadership?

[Gene Eric]

China reaps

[butlerweave]

Ya they mean the Chinese Communist Party ,LOL

[Artemis Webb]

We still needed to get out. Biden FUBAR’d the process but the decision (by Trump) was a good one.

[poinq]

There is nothing the Taliban can’t grab that China can’t take from them.

[srmanuel]

I have heard a alternative theory about what China is up to in Afghanistan...

In order to take advantage of Lithium or Rare Earth Minerals in Afghanistan, you would need some massive infrastructure, roads, heavy equipment for mining, etc...which none exists in Afghanistan...

What China is concerned with is Islamic Terrorists in Afghanistan figuring out that China has several million Uygurs in concentration camps and working as slave laborers....and China is concerned with Muslim Terrorists spilling over the border into China and creating chaos..

[fireman15]

[mewzilla]

And/or making sure more lithium doesn’t get to market...?

[rktman]

There may be a way.

[TexasGator]

World’s largest?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/268790/countries-with-the-largest-lithium-reserves-worldwide/

[Bookshelf]

Chile has the largest lithium reserves worldwide by a large margin. Chile had an estimated 9.2 million metric tons of lithium reserves in 2020. Australia came in second, with reserves estimated at 4.7 million metric tons that year.

[Bishop_Malachi]

“Which is why it will be best to have the US military not only stay in Afghanistan indefinitely but to get a million man reinforcement surge.”

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Pure Lincoln Project Evil....The Chamber of Commerce plus The Woke combining to turn the world into one degenerate, cosmopolitan market.

[Vaduz]

President Joe Biden’s decision to rapidly and completely withdraw from Afghanistan makes even less strategic sense.

NOT China is already dealing with Afghanistan any questions about Biden’s due date?

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[bk1000]

“ What China is concerned with is Islamic Terrorists in Afghanistan figuring out that China has several million Uygurs in concentration camps and working as slave laborers....and China is concerned with Muslim Terrorists spilling over the border into China and creating chaos..”

Muslims generally have no problem with slavery. They may look to the Chinese as models of efficiency here.

[amorphous]

I'm not that knowledgeable on the subject, but from your link:

Chile has the largest lithium reserves worldwide by a large margin. Chile had an estimated 9.2 million metric tons of lithium reserves in 2020. Australia came in second, with reserves estimated at 4.7 million metric tons that year. Mineral reserves are defined as those minerals that were extractable or producible at the time of estimate. Australia was the top country in terms of lithium mine production in 2020, producing 40,000 metric tons of lithium that year.

And from a 2010 CNBC piece:

Just this month, American geologists working with the Pentagon team have been conducting ground surveys on dry salt lakes in western Afghanistan where they believe there are large deposits of lithium. Pentagon officials said that their initial analysis at one location in Ghazni Province showed the potential for lithium deposits as large of those of Bolivia, which now has the world’s largest known lithium reserves.

https://www.cnbc.com/id/37678403

I'm assuming recent advancements in lithium battery tech has probably increase its demand hugely. And China will do whatever it takes to secure the world's largest deposits - even if it means blackmailing the current administration with evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

Lithium may prove to be this century's "black-gold?"

[TexasGator]

Your link is from 2010 POTENTIAL deposits.

[amorphous]

It it were I, running things, I’d conquer that part of the world and hand it over to Christ when He arrives.

[LouAvul]

World's largest lithium deposits? A few threads above is also, "The worst thing that could happen to electric cars..."

I'd say now might not be the time to buy a Harley Live Wire. Or any other electric vehicle.

[amorphous]

Yep

[Revel]

So they will get rich off from the democrats electric car scam. How convenient.