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		advrs on April 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kaspersky believes it found new CIA malware Afghanistan is strategically located at a major crossroads between Central and East Asia. This is useful for trade and military operations. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Oil_Pipeline

lostlogin on April 29, 2021 [–]

> This is useful for trade and military operations.

This has been an unfortunate truth for the US and USSR before it (and other empires before that). For a depressing insight into how little we have learned, Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich is a good read.

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