Guy Matthews: "Our troops in Afghanistan were shot and bombed and burned for profit - same as every other casualty in every other war launched by the West since WW2" | Evolve Politics
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Not according to Julian Assange. WikiLeaks - Julian Assange speaking in 2011: "The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war" #Afghanistan https://uploads1.newtube.app/TonyHeller/Goz4EH7
Afghanistan has countless yummy reserves of rare earth metals, a must have for modern electronics & weaponry & Lithium which is used in batteries, in electric vehicles, being just one example. According to a declassified defense department note, it is THE “the Saudi Arabia of lithium.”
The other winner the arms merchants! Post 2008 those shares are offering yields which very few of the other stocks can compete with. Hence the mergers, acquisitions, to justify increasing board, executive pay.
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