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China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
(cleantechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
The US have a shitstorm coming. That's what you get when you let a toddler play with the control knobs of the country.
Another very interesting point is how China made themselves so powerful. Anything with electronics needs some sort of resource from China. China is a very big and powerful player.
We should wonder if we want t be this dependant on one country for all our tech needs. I think the answer is no....
The anti globalists were calling it 40 years ago and for some stupid reason it's a freaking fascist who is destroying the system that the left was fighting against back then!
Even liberals have been saying that now in modern times. Isolationism is a prime Republican message for a reason.
The line must go up so lobbying+no spines has ensured we haven't do anything about it. There have been are a couple rare earth mines here in the US but it hasn't been profitable and has been heavily subsidized. We needed some other source ready before doing something like this and we don't have it. So it's just stupid.
Schrodenger's Douchebag: a guy who says something highly offensive to see how everyone reacts, then decides if he's going to say "Oh I was just joking." or not.
All the crap they're doing with downsizing of federal agencies, they just wave a hand without knowing what they are doing and when the protests get loud enough they take it back.