China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
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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.
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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.
Good point. He bankrupted several of his casinos as practice, and now he is bankrupting the US.
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You know how has a lot of these minerals? Greenland.
Who is going to process them, though ? The problem is processing them.
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Did Xi jinping say thank you or xia-xia ??
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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.
Yup, it is processing of the ores that china is good at. Rare earth is not that rare.
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Never fight a trade war
on two frontsagainst every country simultaneously.he is repeating history, starting trade wars to trigger world war.
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Who is going to process them, though ? The problem is processing them.
Prisoners and people in RFKs health re-education camps. Just like Russia.
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Canada has an election coming up. It looked like a sure thing that the right wing party would win, now things are swinging in favour of the left wing because we're afraid of Trump
The liberals are not left wing by most measures. They are probably best described as slightly right. You get the usual Neo liberal economics but you don't get the regressive social issues.
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You know how has a lot of these minerals? Greenland.
Those minerals don't just jump up from the ground even if Trump parks his fat orange ass there.
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Did Xi jinping say thank you or xia-xia ??
I think he said "Oh bother."
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You know how has a lot of these minerals? Greenland.
The U.S. has a surprising amount of known rare earth deposits but the deposits aren’t really being explored extensively, much less mined because of economic reasons. The U.S. has the 4th largest lithium deposits, for example, but to mine it wouldn’t be competitive.
A mean, a year ago, I would have said, it’s just cheaper to buy them on global markets than mine them in California. But we’ll see how broke these tariffs make us. We might all have lithium lung and be paid in company scrip again in 15 years.
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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.
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Genuinely never thought I'd join the war on China on the side of China.
It still explains why this is happening. You can't rely on Cina to build your military systems if they are for a war on China.
It's increadible that the comments are about Trump's stupidity and not about the consequences of that war.
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You know how has a lot of these minerals? Greenland.
If you've been to Greenland it you'll realize how inaccessible these mineral deposits are. And with no roads connecting towns it becomes a logistical nightmare. Oh and the place is covered in thick ice and snow for 10 months of the year. There have been mining companies dying there for the last 50 years, 1. Because of legislation and 2 because it's virtually impossible to mine.
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He's evidently working to destroy the USA and its alliances, which serves Russia's interests. But it's hard to know whether he's doing so deliberately or unwittingly.
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Tungston and indium (at least) from those mentioned in the article. Plus graphite, rare earths, and nickle.
