US and Taliban sign deal to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan

[Mister Agenda]

I think you vastly overestimate the value of Afghanistan's mineral wealth compared to the costs of occupying that particular country in order to extract it. Afghanistan was never worth the two trillion dollars we poured into taking and holding it. We were never going to get all that money back. Afghanistan was never going to be a profitable enterprise for the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_...an#Uranium

It seems like a very wealthy landscape.
The invasion of soviets followed by Americans must mean something..they needed that land any my bet is on the Uranium.

If the Soviets needed it so bad, why did they leave? You can't have it both ways, either Afghanistan is so rich that it justifies all the effort put into occupying it, or it turns out that really just not worth it. There are lots of countries with vast mineral wealth that would be easier to occupy and hold than Afghanistan; if that was the motivation we'd invade one of them instead.