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How Trump has already signed rare earth deals and how it ended

President of the United States Donald J. Trump and President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani have a meeting at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, Nov. 28, 2019. (DOD photo by U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Chuck Burden)

On September 22, 2017, Trump received the approval of the President of Afghanistan to enter into a “mineral deal,” the reserves of which in Afghanistan were then estimated at $1 trillion.

After reaching such an agreement with the Afghan government, Trump began secret negotiations with the enemies of the Afghan government – the Taliban.

The negotiations were canceled several times.

After another Taliban terrorist attack, Trump even called off the talks, writing on his Twitter:
“They thought they needed to kill people to put themselves in a slightly better negotiating position. When they did this, they killed 12 people… This cannot be done. You cannot do this with me… Over the past four days, we hit the Taliban harder than in the last 10 years. That’s the situation.”

But nothing! When Trump needs it, he easily rewinds everything and pretends that this was the plan all along!

Eventually, negotiations with the Taliban ended in the signing of the “peace agreement with the U.S.” – an agreement of betrayal of the government and the transfer of Afghanistan’s governance to the Taliban movement.

Trump needed at least eight rounds of secret talks with the Taliban to sign the deal, under which the U.S. would withdraw from Afghanistan, leaving the country to the Taliban.

The Taliban promised to behave decently and not commit repressions. How the U.S. “withdrew” from Afghanistan—we remember. How the Taliban behave—we also remember.

Trump and Ghani making deal on Afghanistan rare minerals

For notes: September 22, 2017, Reuters.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday supported the idea of American companies developing the rare earth mineral reserves in Afghanistan, despite serious obstacles to industrial mining in the country.

Comments made at a meeting in New York were the latest in a series of statements in which U.S. officials and the Afghan government emphasized the potential strategic value of Afghanistan’s vast and virtually unused mineral resources.

“They agreed that such initiatives would help American companies develop materials critical to national security, while also promoting the growth of Afghanistan’s economy and creating new jobs in both countries, which would help offset some of the U.S. aid costs as Afghans become more self-sufficient,” the White House statement said.

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