Articles by Julio M. Shiling

China Will Reap Afghanistan’s Wealth.

Afghanistan is a land of paradox. It is a very poor country, yet at the same time, quite rich. This, one of the most egalitarian places in the world, is sitting on an estimated $3 trillion in untapped natural resources, according to the former Afghan Mines Minister Wahidullah Shahrani and reported by Reuters. Communist China, the Taliban’s financier via its enabler Pakistan, will reap Afghanistan’s wealth.

Copper, iron, lithium, and rare earth metals are some of the minerals which abound in Afghanistan. While these resources have been identified but not fully explored or evaluated, in geological terms, they are considered “undiscovered”. The Soviet Union, during their occupation, did ample research and provided surveys that members of the Afghanistan Geological Survey stored. Moscow had the intention of expropriating these riches. The pullout and the impending collapse of the USSR put an end to those aspirations. 

 

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5 Biggest American Mistakes in Afghanistan.

America has been badly disgraced by the betrayal of Afghanistan. The capitulation before a band of barbarian evildoers, the abandonment of American citizens, Afghan allies, even trusted animals at the service of the United States, will haunt this great county. After toppling the very regime that now has toppled the United States in Afghanistan and 20 years of occupation, investment, and the loss of American, Afghan, and NATO allies’ lives, the question becomes, what went wrong? Here are the 5 biggest United States mistakes in Afghanistan.

1. Centralization of power 

Afghanistan is still pretty much a premodern society. It is Hobbesian. Anthropologically tribal to this very day, it extends legitimacy to authoritative leadership that keeps it safe. It is comprehensively multiethnic, multicultural, and multilinguistic. Even though Afghans share in Islam a common religion, tribalism and its historical, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds mold the manner of its practice. 

 

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January 6th and the Democrat’s Authoritarian Crackdown.

The FBI, after ending a thorough investigation on August 20^th lasting more then eight months, concluded that the Capitol Building breach in January was not centrally coordinated by former president Donald Trump, his supporters, or any “far-right” group, as per Reuters.

One would think that all conspiracy theory notions of a “white supremacist”, “white nationalist”, or “ultra-right extremist” group centrally spearheading the unlawful January 6^th Capitol Building entry, as the American left has propagandized, would have died. Afterall, that Blue Anon lie has been, with the FBI investigation, completely debunked. The Democrat’s, however, are persisting in falsifying the truth, criminalizing dissent and in a clear authoritarian pursuit, have begun political persecution of conservatives.  

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the ideological January 6^th Commission, set the stage on Tuesday August 24^th for the capricious aggrievement of Trump and half the country that voted for him. Even though the FBI’s conclusion makes these hearings a moot legal point, Representative Bennie Thomas (D-MS), who chairs this partisan investigating body, sent letters the following day to eight federal agencies seeking records from Trump, members of his family, staff, administration, and dozens of outsiders who the ruling left has decided may have links to the 45^th president (Trump).

 

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Biden-Harris Administration: The Price of Weakness and Betrayal.

If history teaches us anything, it is that the price of weakness and betrayal is far greater than the cost borne for remaining free. The Biden-Harris administration’s total capitulation before Islamic fundamentalism and the abandonment of the people of Afghanistan will have consequences far beyond this landlocked country. A new jihad is underway against Western civilization, with the United States as its main target. The brutish band of the barbarian Taliban has proved to the world that when the United States is governed by weak, incompetent, and un-American groups of people, such as the American left, it is inert.

During an interview in 1946 with American communist journalist Anna Louise Strong, Mao Tse-tung referred to the United States as a “paper tiger”. The world’s greatest mass murderer (Mao) made a judgment call about America, sensing her resolve to support the sovereign state of the Republic of China (ROC) during the communist war for political control (1927-1937 and 1945-1949). Unfortunately, Mao was correct in believing the United States would abandon Chiang Kai-shek and the ROC. 

 

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