henk: i would be very surprised. would probably be one of the few countries that would make an attempt in the future to see. first of all, you have to see what the developments are going to be with the tele-band -- the taliban in power now, so that is going to be time-consuming. it has not been an entirely wonderful experience for the chinese so far. it is very difficult to put-- s mines into production on environments like that. i would be surprised if they have room to run into afghanistan in the near future. but there is going to be an enormous shortage of rare-earth and lithium in the world, so there was always somebody at some point trying to actually develop something there, but that is going to be very difficult. dani: this is a crucial thing you right in your research, the need for lithium, the growth of the ev market. is afghanistan, at least in the medium to near term, able to contribute to this global need for lithium? can anything fill in the gap? henk: i have been in the mining industry for a long time.

national archives of the united kingdom, but we're also talking about the full diaries of maurice henke. who was effectively the national security advisor of the british war cabinet? on the diaries of lloyd george's mistress and other also eyesight some a couple of records of british cabinet meetings, which which weren't supposed to have notes. but which were taken by a man named lord harcourt, which some of which is absolute dynamite in the bodling library at oxford. so the some of the british material also is kind of the decrypts of the british intelligence intercepts. and so you need to then pull all this together. i think this it was possible to do this starting in the 1980s. i actually even think that some of the people working on the woodrow wilson papers. in the early 1980s were beginning to see this i can just tell from some of the footnotes. i think some of the people who are editing those papers. the light bulbs were visit were going off and it was almost like they were urging historians to take another look at this and i guess i'm i'm one of the ones who did a few more questi