And? The same has been said about Afghanistan. So what? What is the point here? A madman commie dictator on top of a supposed gold mine of treasure. How does that change anything? Is he using it to benefit his own common man? Nonsense.
Indeed - Afghanistan claims mineral wealth is worth $3trillion
I could speculate someone is trying to build a case for collateral for loans? Cui bono? I Wonder what the potential skim is on development loans.
I was going to point out that we read the same stuff about Afghanistan a couple years ago, presumably as a left wing explanation of why US troops were there. The mineral resources of Afghanistan and North Korea are not proven to the extent of the mineral deposits in Africa and South America. So even when the infrastructure is already there, as in the case of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and dare I say Russia, it rapidly deteriorates under socialist management, and does not appreciably help the general population.
We get them or Russia gets them or Iran gets them or China gets them...?
The question is what is the dictator’s motive to reach out to the United States? I can tell you.
China would be willing to go in and just take them...war.
We know Vlad’s tactics...just take over the country by force.
Iran doesn’t quite have the strength and other internal concerns nullify them.
Trump agenda MAGA, those mineral resources are needed here. We would negotiate to get them vs. going to war to get them. All around it looks like a win-win-win.
The dictator looks like a hero to his people and keeps stability for his country vs. the Afghanistan tribal war factions. Something is motivating the dictator beyond what we can see...what is it?