China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
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Haven't you heard? China are already on the phone with Trump saying they are going to move the production of terbium to the US. Basically they'll use these very big drills to mine Chinese minerals right from Wyoming.
Cant take more than 2-3 months to move Terbium mining to Ohio.
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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.
they are not rare, but they are not concentrated enough to make mining worthwhile. that will change when the price starts approaching infinity, but it takes years to ramp up production. and while you are sifting through huge volumes of stone and rock for meager results, the rest of the world runs in circles around you.
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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.
Nations that trade extensively with each other don't go to war. Trade wars are an accelerator of armed conflict.
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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.
I've seen jokes(?) that they're aiming high, as in, aiming for high global temperatures to handle the ice. Stupidity wouldn't describe it, it'd be insanity... But isn't that what this administration is all about?
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Prisoners and people in RFKs health re-education camps. Just like Russia.
Rfks goauld had slave miners
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Also, China is going to give the finger to US companies and Trump and make even more counterfeit stuff.
Companies complaining about Chinese IP ain't seen nothing, yet.
Wasn't respecting US patents also one of the parts of the US-Canada agreement as well which they now technically don't have to do anymore, as not having tariffs was one of the requirements?
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Haven't you heard? China are already on the phone with Trump saying they are going to move the production of terbium to the US. Basically they'll use these very big drills to mine Chinese minerals right from Wyoming.
I drink your milkshake.
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If China stops exporting these to the US that should influence the trade deficit in the way Trump is looking for, right? Isn’t that what this was supposed to do according to Trump?
I mean.. who knows what he wants, maybe he wants to crash the economy.
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Nations that trade extensively with each other don't go to war. Trade wars are an accelerator of armed conflict.
Nations that trade extensively with each other don’t go to war.
To be fair, that didn't work with Russia.
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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.
I don't think he works for Putin (or well, who knows), but I think he admires fascism and fascists put ideology above economy, so that tracks.
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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.
See, it was plausible until the price of oil started falling. Oil is one of the few things propping up Russia's economy. If oil keeps falling, Russia is even more screwed than it is now.
It would appear that he's just a brat who's never been told no in his life, grown so far as to be going senile. It's all ego. Every single stupid thing he does is because he thinks he's right. He is the literal embodiment of the dunning-krueger effect, fed by a bubble of yes-men hoping for crumbs from the table.
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Bet the US is suddenly going to buy these minerals out of Russia. Bet one of is children or in-laws indirectly owns a exporting company in Russia.
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Pikachu O face
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I don't think he even knows what's on half the shit he signs.
He just grabs his oversized marker pen, puts that goofy-ass signature on them, holds it up for the camera like he's still hosting The Apprentice, and goes back to playing golf.
The idea of global supply chains more complex than "cotton -> cloth -> Trump branded tat" would blow his mind.
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Doesn't the US have plenty of these materials, it's just too expensive to mine it because of environmental protection legislation, wages, missing infrastructure for it and so on? This wouldn't change in Canada/Greenland.
It would... if the annexed territories became a special economic zone where, magically, slavery was made completely legal.
For an example what might be yet to come, you could take a look at the horrifying history of the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal which happened in a similarly hostile environment. -
Nations that trade extensively with each other don’t go to war.
To be fair, that didn't work with Russia.
Russia realized that if you just steal shit, you don't have to pay for it anymore.
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It would... if the annexed territories became a special economic zone where, magically, slavery was made completely legal.
For an example what might be yet to come, you could take a look at the horrifying history of the construction of the White Sea-Baltic Canal which happened in a similarly hostile environment.Of course, you are theoretically completely right. But Greenland has absolutely 0 infrastructure, and almost no people, and Canada would resist so powerfully (they have nuclear weapons) that it's also completely unrealistic.
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I don't think he works for Putin (or well, who knows), but I think he admires fascism and fascists put ideology above economy, so that tracks.
And yet every single action he takes helps Putin...
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This will only encourage him to go after Greenland even harder. He thinks they are the solution to having "rare earth."
Without China as a supplier, and thinking Greenland is the solution, it will justify an armed attack on Greenland in his empty cranium.
The base we maintain in Greenland has about 150 people. My prediction is that he will start sending troops to the base to build up a force, and starting intimidating Greenland/Denmark.
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And yet every single action he takes helps Putin...
well he does seem to admire Putin after all
