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All this instability has me direly worried about what will happen if China invades Taiwan. Like, if we think it’s bad now, an invasion of Taiwan would grind our systems to a halt.
Bro I’m just wondering if it will be a Kurdish style diplomatic capitulation or a Ukrainian style meatgrinder. The moral of the story is that if you’re a US ally you get fucked. The question is simply how hard
What US allies are left?
Russia and North-Korea.
Like Trump likes to say so much: FAFO.
Multiple can play that game.
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.
Bet the US is suddenly going to buy these minerals out of Russia. Bet one of Trump’s 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.
Greenland, Ukraine, Canada: all of Trump’s actions make sense if you consider that he wants to secure rare earth minerals for… someone
Trump & Putin are committed to DESTROYING the hated EU between a pincer of Putin + butchered-Eastern-Europe & Trump + butchered Canada & Greenland.
THEN they get to be the only “kings” ruling the remains of the West, until they die.
They’re narcissist-nihilists, as all “mass shooters” are: they’re just committing their “mass shooting” through legislations, & hitting entire populations with what they’re firing, legislatively.
Pay attention to the fact that the woke EU is competing against both of them for world-significance AND doing-so with anti-Putin/Trump values.
Canada & Greenland stand in the way, that is all, except for the wealth that Trump would gain, through claiming it as his new-possession of the US.
Destroying the EU, though, that’d be “priceless” to them…
No more competitor!!
Well, clean tech isn’t in the US list anymore, so don’t count it in.
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 start intimidating Greenland/Denmark.
You know who 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.
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.
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?
Who is going to process them, though ? The problem is processing them.
Prisoners and people in RFKs health re-education camps. Just like Russia.
Rfks goauld had slave miners
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.
Do they?
No lol
Tungston and indium (at least) from those mentioned in the article. Plus graphite, rare earths, and nickle.
Lol tungston
Those minerals don’t just jump up from the ground even if Trump parks his fat orange ass there.
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? So he should be happy about this, right? Because it’ll bring the manufacturing of the minerals home? /s
I mean… who knows what he wants, maybe he wants to crash the economy.
I mean, he seems to be hinting at that now, but he can’t really do anything else. “Whoops. Didn’t think this button I pushed would do that” is just not something he is able to say, even if it might be true. Then again it would be difficult doing something this extreme accidentally I would think.
Yep, new us mines will open any day now. Any day
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.
“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?
I drink your milkshake.
The era of Geoeconomics has begun.
How badly do you need to fuck up so that China is the one we’re rooting for? JFC.
But didn’t Trump tell them not to retaliate? I’m pretty sure Trump told them not to retaliate. I don’t understand.
Really. Maybe they were unclear. About the not retaliating.
He still has cards to play to make himself heard. He hasn’t insulted anyone’s attire yet.
He’s got the punch buggy, no punch back rules.
Did Xi jinping say thank you or xia-xia ni ??
I think he said “Oh bother.”
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but thankyou, CCP.
