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America's factory boom now a bust as China cuts off graphite sales, likely to push tariff repeals (m.youtube.com)
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[–] RangerJosie@sffa.community 3 points 8 months ago

That exact type of suicidal calculus is what we're best at. Or at least well practiced at. Just look at how we wield sanctions like a cleaver. We've abused them so much that it wouldn't be a lie to say the US is a major contributor to the success of BRICS. We engineered the conditions that made a financial system outside the realm of the petrodollar not only possible, but necessary.