But Sleepy Joe said just yesterday that the Afghan government would not fall. I'm so confused. Could this all be more Russian misinformation?
My highly educated neighbour believes the earth is flat!
We should have never went in!
Afghanistan has spent most of it's history under some foreign power's foot. If we REALLY wanted to force them into submission we easily could. Problem is that the country is absolutely worthless.
No conquering power has every kept it , with the exception of the Khans.
Twenty years wasted. Almost 3,000 dead. Over 20,000 maimed for life.
We had over 20k casualties on Iwo and I think 30k at Anzio.
"In 1219 Genghis Khan went to war against the Khwarezm Empire in present-day Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Iran. The sultan there had agreed to a trade treaty, but when the first caravan arrived its goods were stolen and its merchants were killed. The sultan then murdered some of Genghis Khan's ambassadors. Despite once again being outnumbered, the Mongol horde swept through one Khwarezm city after another, including Bukhara, Samarkand and Urgench. Skilled workers such as carpenters and jewelers were usually saved, while aristocrats and resisting soldiers were killed. Unskilled workers, meanwhile, were often used as human shields during the next assault. No one knows with any certainty how many people died during Genghis Khan's wars, in part because the Mongols propagated their vicious image as a way of spreading terror."Afghanistan - Wikipedia
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Except for being one of the worlds largest deposits of lithium. Somehow I think the Chinese have an endgame for that.
www.livescience.com
Now I'm really stirred up. We should have kept the dang place and mined the snot out of it.Despite being one of the poorest nations in the world, Afghanistan may be sitting on one of the richest troves of minerals in the world, valued at nearly $1 trillion, according to U.S. scientists.
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.
"Afghanistan is a country that is very, very rich in mineral resources," Jack Medlin, a geologist and program manager of the U.S. Geological Survey's Afghanistan project, told Live Science. "We've identified the potential for at least 24 world-class mineral deposits." The scientists' work was detailed in the Aug. 15 issue of the journal Science.
$1 Trillion Trove of Rare Minerals Revealed Under Afghanistan
The war-torn country of Afghanistan may be sitting on one of the richest treasure troves of minerals in the world, valued at nearly $1 trillion and maybe much more.
We were told not to wake Joe up. He needs his nap time
That's a given.
You don't want Kamala to deal with this.
