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| Afghanistan: Geo-economics over geopolitics |
| 2021-08-26 |
| Link via Boris Rozhin. Annotation: Tolja By Hussein Askary [ChinaDaily] The hasty withdrawal of US, British and other NATO troops from Afghanistan after their almost 20 years of failed "war on terror" could become an inflection point toward a new era in world politics. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 I bet the Chinese cornering the rare earth metals will provokea lot of countries to head to the asteroids and mine the stuff. It'll be as profitable like back in the spice trade of the 15 the century |
| Posted by: Eohippus Gleth9401 2021-08-26 19:35 |
| #1 You know, there are enough guys in the US military who grew up in poor areas of the Appalachians who could have told the politicians, diplomats and brass that the population in the Stan would be "backwards, resistant to change, set in their ways," and that trying to get a result that ran counter to that was a waste of time. But that's not how the decision matrix is wired. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-08-26 05:40 |