China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
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Part of me hopes that other countries that have also had some populist fascist groups making waves recently would see how bad we've fucked up and not go down the same path. But we sure as hell didn't seem to learn anything from Brexit about isolationism
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That’s not a problem I’ll just go ask one of my historical trade partohnoholyfuckwgatdidijustdo.
Never fight a trade war
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You know how has a lot of these minerals? Greenland.
Do they?
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Delicious. Simply delicious. Trump didnt just pick up the gun, load the gun, aim the gun at his foot, fire the gun, claim it would make him run better and fall over. He then got back up and did it all again with the other foot still claiming it would make him run better.
It takes a truly special kind of stupid to be at Trumps level.
It is all building to him putting the gun to his head with the promise it will make him stronger than ever. He will retaliate to these retaliations because it is all he understands. All his life he has just ignored or run head first at problems planning to solve them in the moment with his superior mind and it has never worked, and he never learns. More than that he never sees it as failed, and that is what so much of the US voted for and the world saw it.
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Do they?
Tungston and indium (at least) from those mentioned in the article. Plus graphite, rare earths, and nickle.
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Genuinely never thought I'd join the war on China on the side of China.
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It’s not a big deal. Rare earth minerals aren’t that rare.
It’s the refining of rare earth minerals which is energy intensive and causes a great deal of pollution.
It was nice that China was destroying their own environment and spending the capital to build power plants. Now we will have to invest the capital to do it ourselves.
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Canada should also institute export licensing rules on critical minerals too
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Aren't you already seen as the 51st state?
I’ve been seen as a giant baby-snatching predator by loopy crows defending their nest. That doesn’t mean I am one.
At this point, most of the world is getting past thinking what Trump and his cronies see them as, as it’s likely to change dramatically from hour to hour.
But we might get fed up with the noisy crow.
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He still has cards to play to make himself heard. He hasn't insulted anyone attire yet.
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Aren't you already seen as the 51st state?
Most Americans think that’s fucking stupid
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Delicious. Simply delicious. Trump didnt just pick up the gun, load the gun, aim the gun at his foot, fire the gun, claim it would make him run better and fall over. He then got back up and did it all again with the other foot still claiming it would make him run better.
It takes a truly special kind of stupid to be at Trumps level.
Trump isn't stupid, at least not that stupid. Your analogy would work better if instead of shooting his own foot he's shooting Uncle Sam's foot. You act confused because you think he works for Uncle Sam. He does not. He's a Russian asset: his job is to make sure Uncle Sam never walks again.
When you look at it that way, all his actions make perfect sense. He works for Putin and he's doing a good job.
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He's got the punch buggy, no punch back rules.
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But we sure as hell didn't seem to learn anything from Brexit about isolationism
"Oh that could never happen here!"
This is the FO part of the American Exceptionalism FA.
I quite literally remember having teachers in elementary school teaching about the holocaust/hitler and asking the class if if they could foresee this happening in the US. Every kid shoot their head and chuckled assuredly, how absurd to even consider.
I still remember the look on Mrs. Begasto's face of "oh yeah? so confident, I know something you don't, I know the world in a way you are entirely naive to." I didn't understand why she felt that way, but I could tell she was certain about something I didn't get. The closer we edge to a fearful, uneducated public thinking a bully king is what would be good for the country and the world the more I find myself thinking about Mrs. Begasto's worried smirk.
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I quite literally remember having teachers in elementary school teaching about the holocaust/hitler and asking the class if if they could foresee this happening in the US. Every kid shoot their head and chuckled assuredly, how absurd to even consider.
I still remember the look on Mrs. Begasto's face of "oh yeah? so confident, I know something you don't, I know the world in a way you are entirely naive to." I didn't understand why she felt that way, but I could tell she was certain about something I didn't get. The closer we edge to a fearful, uneducated public thinking a bully king is what would be good for the country and the world the more I find myself thinking about Mrs. Begasto's worried smirk.
Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood, and others like them weren't super fortune tellers or anything. They just studied humankind enough to know what could happen. And we Americans by-and-extra-large are too arrogant to learn those lessons.
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Most Americans think that’s fucking stupid
And it totally is. Stupid, and traitorous.
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Trump isn't stupid, at least not that stupid. Your analogy would work better if instead of shooting his own foot he's shooting Uncle Sam's foot. You act confused because you think he works for Uncle Sam. He does not. He's a Russian asset: his job is to make sure Uncle Sam never walks again.
When you look at it that way, all his actions make perfect sense. He works for Putin and he's doing a good job.
He can be both: working for Putin and a complete moron.
You don’t threaten to sue the school you attended if they your grades are released unless you know they are nothing to be proud of. Also, that professor or teacher that said Trump was the dumbest student he had to teach in all his years.
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Delicious. Simply delicious. Trump didnt just pick up the gun, load the gun, aim the gun at his foot, fire the gun, claim it would make him run better and fall over. He then got back up and did it all again with the other foot still claiming it would make him run better.
It takes a truly special kind of stupid to be at Trumps level.
Putin continues to finance trump and has bailed him out of bankruptcy in the past. None of this is foot shooting, its all trashing the US from top to bottom as Putin planned. Every day Putin wins and people scratch their heads wondering why trump would do such stupid things.
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The MIC already worked a solution since last time China restricted exports; both Cali and Australia would pick up production.
The problem with rare earth isn't that it's rare, it's that they only exist in low concentrations, and the total lack of labor and environmental laws in China means the world can not compete on price... Our modern neoliberal governments refuse to do anything that does not enrich or empower the oligarchy.
Unfortunately, this means Australia might have just jumped to the top of the nazi parties annexation list.
That's not exactly the issue nowadays. The main problem is that Chinese industry has poured decades of investment into working out how to refine these minerals, and they're the only ones who are now able to do it at scale. So other countries that extract and process rare earths (which as noted aren't actually that rare) often ship semi-processed ore to China for final processing.
Sure, other countries can replicate these capabilities if they're willing to put in the effort. It's like China's challenge with EUV lithography, but in reverse. Though building up a rare earths processing industry probably involves not just spending capital, but also major environmental risks while you're doing your trials.
