The driving force for removing the Taliban’s terrorist designation and inviting it to next month’s investment forum is the desire to make tangible progress on reaching a strategic energy deal with Pakistan, which would complete its Ummah Pivot and Greater Eurasian Partnership.
From the CIA Factbook, Afghan natural resources: natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stones, arable land.
Huh, they forgot to mention their main cash crop in Afghanistan--opium. No matter, where there's exploitable natural resources in a developing country, there's where you will find the CIA and its front groups.
It would be disingenuous to say that Russia and China don't want access to those natural resources every bit as much as the US Empire, though they are willing to do so on much more favorable terms to the Afghans. Throw in geography, and we're back to the Great Game with the Afghans, who only want to be left alone and to profit from trade, stuck in the middle again.
From the CIA Factbook, Afghan natural resources: natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semiprecious stones, arable land.
Huh, they forgot to mention their main cash crop in Afghanistan--opium. No matter, where there's exploitable natural resources in a developing country, there's where you will find the CIA and its front groups.
It would be disingenuous to say that Russia and China don't want access to those natural resources every bit as much as the US Empire, though they are willing to do so on much more favorable terms to the Afghans. Throw in geography, and we're back to the Great Game with the Afghans, who only want to be left alone and to profit from trade, stuck in the middle again.