I guess the people that stayed there are happy. They threw the outsiders of their sand box and been getting flack ever since. Not so much lately, kind of quiet. Vietnam, Afghanistan, same thing, “hey you, get out of our sand box.” I heard there is enormous natural resources wealth in those Afghan mountains. The worlders would LOVE to do some metals harvesting over there. Maybe some are?
Outsiders are like the Spaniards that harvested all the gold from the Inca or Astec Indians. I heard they brought so much Gold back home it caused inflation for a while.
The Arabs must be smart, didn’t they create the alphabet? I don’t think there are too many outsiders harvesting from the USA. But I think South Africa bought our Stillwater Mining PGMs mine. But then again they all harvest US consumer dollars, hard currency. Dollars go very far in other nations.