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2021-08-20 Afghanistan

China Admits Taliban Ties Aimed at Getting Afghanistan's $3 Trillion in Rare Earths

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-20 06:44|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Taliban/IEA

#1 Captain Obvious - please pick up the white courtesy phone...

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2021-08-20 08:12|| 2021-08-20 08:12|| Front Page Top

#2 If none of the world's largest mining concerns found anything worth exploiting there in the past 20 years, that means it's not there. Afghanistan may be the world's strategic gravel reserve, but nothing more. One trillion. Three trillion. The magic numbers are in as perpetual flux as the COVID stats.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-08-20 08:27|| 2021-08-20 08:27|| Front Page Top

Posted by Frank G 2021-08-20 09:05|| 2021-08-20 09:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Confucius say, "Heavenly place,
Afghanistan, fit for great race
Chasing tar-baby, catching
In rosy new patch...
And for watching Brer Rabbit reach space."

Posted by Fleck Spoluse7620 2021-08-20 09:45|| 2021-08-20 09:45|| Front Page Top

#5
Sun Tzu had brain fart
when he say 'War is Art'.
Our lawyers, clerks
and digging machines
shall quickly take
this place apart.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-20 10:14|| 2021-08-20 10:14|| Front Page Top

#6 The Chinese and the Taliban deserve each other. One thing Muslims hate more than competing monotheists is atheists.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2021-08-20 13:38|| 2021-08-20 13:38|| Front Page Top

#7 And watch the Paki be compelled by China to invade Kashmir as a strategic diversion when the latter invade Taiwan

Posted by Vinegar Threaling7392 2021-08-20 21:19|| 2021-08-20 21:19|| Front Page Top

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