U.S.'s inability to replace rare earths supply from China poses a defense threat, think tank warns

if there was any semblance of central planning in the U.S. they would have been buying up and stockpiling bars of rare earth metals in government warehouses

but there's no profit in that

It's endlessly funny to me that America built up the largest military the world has ever seen, one that's built around all these high-tech cutting edge wunderweapons, and it didn't once occur to them that they should have the ability to actually produce the fucking things under less-than-perfect conditions (say if your goal is eventually declaring war on the county that sells you the basic building blocks needed for every weapon more complex than a bayonet)

Not even a rust belt to hold up their pants anymore. The empire has no clothes.

WOW IF ONLY ONE COULD HAVE FORSEEN THIS!!!

Calling imperialistic militaries 'defense' is one of the weirdest-ly successful and ubiquitous propaganda shit. Then you get to call it a 'defense threat' as sif someone is about to or has any interest in invading the US. It's the one thing to be pretty much literally

The US' inability to replace rare earth supply poses a threat to the US' ability to do overseas killing. Which is a great thing.

:weird:

Ahh laying the groundwork for our next resource war eh?