China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
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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
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Never fight a trade war
on two frontsagainst every country simultaneously.In the wise words of Londo Mollari
Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.
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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?
Everyone is pretty much selling every stock right now, but sell NYSE: DIS ?
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Greenland, Ukraine, Canada: all of Trump's actions make sense if you consider that he wants to secure rare earth minerals for... someone
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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.
Oh. That's why China was fighting so hard to buy the Tanbreez site during the last administration and why the US had to exert soft power on 4 different countries to buy it out from under them.
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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.
I'm pretty sure Putin played his narcissistic ass like a fiddle in the attempt to destabilize the US in order to win in Ukraine, and it's paid off so much more than he ever dreamed.
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Nations that trade extensively with each other don’t go to war.
To be fair, that didn't work with Russia.
Didn't it ? Russia started imposing tariffs on Ukraine in 2012.
Trade breakdown is a clear precursor to armed conflict.
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The era of Geoeconomics has begun.
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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.
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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.
"But look at this picture of Hunter Biden's magnum dong. I mean, just look at it. Its so...magnum." - Margarine BattleToad Greene.
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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.
"Yep, that's how it works, I saw it in a cartoon once." - MAGA Scientific expert.
I mean Scientologist. That's the same thing, right?
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It will be interesting to see if Canada allies with China
Much like how Vietnam was allied with the US because of the giant military on their doorstep
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Didn't it ? Russia started imposing tariffs on Ukraine in 2012.
Trade breakdown is a clear precursor to armed conflict.
Fair enough.. I meant more in the lines of Europe appeasing (germany in particular) appeasing Russia, but then again, Russia is not directly at war with Germany.
