Had an American company won Aynak, some Afghans noted wryly, critics inevitably would have accused the United States of waging war to seize the country's mineral wealth.

如果是一家美国公司赢得艾纳克矿，一些阿富汗人会苦笑，批评者难免要指责美国发动战争是为了霸占这个国家的矿产资源。

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In the 1879-84 War of the Pacific, Chile won control of mineral-rich land once held by Peru and Bolivia, and the outcome left Bolivia landlocked.

BBC: Peru deal gives landlocked Bolivia coast for own port

World War II simply burned up untold quantities of every resource, human, mineral, and environmental.

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