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[bemildred]

1. And that is what the war there is about, the potash. nt

[polly7]

2. Yep.

This last point is critical. If revenues from the sale of phosphate from the Western Sahara are helping to bankroll Morocco's continued military occupation of SADR, are shipments like those involving Agrium helping to perpetuate the continued plight of Saharawi refugees?

http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/10/14/Canadian-AgriBusiness-Morocco/

[bemildred]

3. Nothing new about potash wars:

War of the Pacific

Even though the 1873 treaty and the imposition of the 10 centavos tax proved to be the casus belli, there were deeper, more fundamental reasons for the outbreak of hostilities in 1879. On the one hand, there was the power, prestige, and relative stability of Chile compared to the economic deterioration and political discontinuity which characterised both Peru and Bolivia after independence. On the other, there was the ongoing competition for economical and political hegemony in the region, complicated by a deep antipathy between Peru and Chile. In this milieu, the vagueness of the boundaries between the three states, coupled with the discovery of valuable guano and nitrate deposits in the disputed territories, combined to produce a diplomatic conundrum of insurmountable proportions.[11]

Over birdshit, basically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific

[MisterP]

4. lots in the 19th c., too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chincha_Islands_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific