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Chinas military proxy is emboldened by Trumps complete failure to end the war.
USA cannot now project power effectively because China controls the supply of crucial rare earths that are essential to US armaments manufacture and more generally many high tech products the US depends upon.
The eastern provinces Russia has already seized house the steel mills that produce most of the global supply of highly refined neon gas essential in the manufacture of the lasers used to make microchips...
China has won the trade war and with its growing number of tributaries is challenging US global hegemony.
Trump appears incapable of stopping them.
The decline if not end of western civilisation is perhaps imminent.
Jesus Christ he ends multiple wars within 6 months but because of one you think he's incapable. You quickly are over looking the rapid advancement of not just US but Australia’s. Plus Chinas hold on the Congo is just gone. They didn't stop that war Trump did.
Plus lets not forget China can't feed itself. Don't have to fight hard or much when the enemy is starving.
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Trump says he can end the Russia-Ukraine war in one day.
July 3, 2024
But he can't.
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Dang man… I didn't know Trump was in office then. You can't even get your basic dates right for an argument your trying to pick but the facts are clear that China’s grip is slipping. If it wasn't they wouldn't have plunged the price of rare earths earlier this year and the US government placed a huge order for MP materials to prevent China from doing what it did last time at that mine when it was owned by Moly Corp and was bankrupted by the Chinese price manipulation
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The US/west is utterly dependent upon Chinese supply of rare earths.
China has cut off supplies to the wests military.
Game over.
Congo? vs Ukraine?
Really?
Sounds like US Exceptionalism Clutching at Straws.
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Wait… do you think Ukraine has more rare earths then the Congo that the US needs? This statement alone makes it clear you have no idea where rare earths are sourced from because there isn't a single Ukrainian mine.
Also since the Chinese caused prices to skyrocket a decade ago the DoD has built stockpiles. Then you have MP materials who refines and is about to finish there magnet factory outside of Dallas. The deposit in Round Top Texas is also gearing up with its processing and magnet manufacturing facility already operational.
The Chinese are cheaper but the US and Australia have rapidly and significantly addressed the issues they face.
Sounds like you are clutching at population collapse straws of a country with young adult unemployment hitting near 30% and an economy that's been contracting.
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Misrepresenting what I have said is not a good look- it reeks of desperation...and is simply dishonest. I never said Ukraine has more rare earths than Congo- I did say Eastern Ukraine is the source of the vast majority of highly refined and strategically important neon gas, a crucial ingredient in the manufacture of lasers required to produce microchips.
There are many other strategic materials and processes besides rare earths.
Regarding rare earths, it is not just accessing the raw materials that are required to produce rare earths that is the problem- that is the easy part, it is subsequent the ability to refine those rare earths to the point where they are useful.
Japan realised its dependence upon China on this front more than a decade ago and sought to fix it- but they have not done so because China can refine the rare earth more efficiently / at a lower cost than Japan can - and the USA with its decrepit industrial base is worse of in this respect than Japan.
The best estimates by experts in the field is that the US/west Might be able to rebuild its rare earth refining at massive cost and several decades but even then it would not be competitive with China and would involve huge cost and never be profitable.
China now has the ability to produce things much more efficiently than the west because the west has become mired in financial derivatives and all the cleverness and delusion they carry with them...while China has invested in productive infrastructure and skills -their top politicians are engineers, not corporate lobbyists or hotel developers/fiat debt slavery bankers proxies.
The west lacks the skills, incentives, and the infrastructure and the efficiency.
China has the advantage.
All the west has is the legacy control and sense of entitlement that comes after centuries of global dominance and imperialism- that does not magically enable you to wave a wand and refine all the strategic rare earths next week, next year or next decade.
US Exceptionalists exceptional privilege, arrogance and entitlement, caught sleeping at the wheel.
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China’s advantage is lax environmental policy around these refiners and cheap labor. Efficiency isn't a key thing with China at all? Its known to mass produce and by doing that address the issues that arise.
The US has already begun rapidly rebuilding it and you've ignored all the places and companies I've talked about that already do it in the US 😂
China has only boomed because they opened up to the West and now there provinces, local governments and many large companies are a complete and utter debt disaster. Are we going to also ignore when people last year were at banks demanding there money and the military moved in?
The DOE and the National Labs have also recently not only discovered but proved its economically viable to retrieve rare earths from coal ash. This method is already being deployed and scaled up plus it addresses the coal ash issue making it less toxic. The data is out there.
China is trying to make people addicted to their fiat and the would continues to push back so again your points were once more refuted your doing to dodge this and claim its US exceptionalism except your trying to prove Chinese exceptionalism with a country that is facing a significant population cliff within the next 15-20 years.
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The experts say that the US cannot compete with China on refining rare earths and to even do so would require Huge State Subsidies and would take decades.
Rising empires often display characteristics that those in declining ones might disparage- things like slavery, racism, and compulsory confiscations of peoples gold.
But once dominance is gained and the population are more comfortable they demand more and more 'rights' and the rot begins.
It is the pattern of history- the rise and fall of empires- and it has never stopped, and may never.
China is rising and the US is in deep debt and chronic economic and societal decline, looking down its nose in disbelief at China and its annual Trillion dollar trade surpluses and its monopoly on rare earths...
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You do not appear to understand what I am saying.
You are blatantly misrepresenting and misinterpreting what I have actually said.
Read what I wrote again, and better luck comprehending it, on your second reading.