U.S.'s inability to replace rare earths supply from China poses a defense threat, think tank warns
U.S.'s inability to replace rare earths supply from China poses a defense threat, think tank warns
www.nbcnews.com
U.S.'s inability to replace rare earths supply from China poses a defense threat, think tank warns
My response when I hear that the "defense" industry will be hurt over something China has done:
Edit: apparently it didn't work as a gif https://tenor.com/bNGMW.gif
China didn't do shit tho. The US started this and is now shocked by the consequences of their own actions. lol
Sorry, poor phrasing on my part. I didn't mean to imply that China wasn't 100% within their rights considering the USA absolutely started shit. American government fucked around now it's finding out.
history suggests that we'll take genocidal action whenever the american empire needs something, so i'm certain that the military industrial complex will not be the ones getting fucked.
Think theres a misunderstanding here. As far as i know the issue with rare earths isnt like oil or something. You have to process lots of material to get them. You dont find like big deposits of them. You take the normal mined material, process it, and extract the rare earths. So the US cant just invade somewhere and take them. Theyd need to actually build the facilities to process the materials.