Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "TRUTH about US Afghanistan Withdrawal - Forgotten History" video.

  1. The root cause of this debacle was the USA invading Afghanistan 20 years before. Just like Vietnam they didn't bother to understand how the people think, nor bother to understand that the locals just wanted foreigners out of their country. The USA never learns .... Americans, Russians .... all the same evil as far as the locals were concerned. One and the same. The reason why the USA invaded Afghanistan was not because they were honorably trying to destroy the Taliban and free the people. It was because when the Russians were there, they did a comprehensive geological survey - and found the place was rich with mineral resources, especially rare earths critical to modern technology. The USA was scared these resources would be accessed by Iran, which is technologically capable, culturally compatible, and shares a language with Afghanistan. The USA is dead set scared of Iran building its technological capability. The US government wanted a pliant government in Afghanistan, and tried to get US or other US-friendly country mining companies to extract the resources, but no company was fool enough to try, so the US military presence became pointless.
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