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There is no nation on earth that can fight a modern war without the supply of rare earths that are essential to the manufacture of most modern warfare materiel.
Any war between US and China cannot be a direct full blown nuclear one as that would result in guaranteed mutual destruction.
Instead it will be, as it already is, one mostly fought via proxies.
One fought using hardware and tactics which inherently require rare earths USA does not have.
USA has already lost that war for at least the next ten years as it cannot re supply itself or its allies.
USA has lost the ability to make and supply things- its neoliberal financialisation has crippled its capacity to fight a war.
US military industrial complex has lost already- just sad and tragic most of its citizens cannot see that or accept that yet- even if Trump already knows it.
@Cje95 knows it too- just that he cannot admit it because hes paid not to.
The US needs to keep leveraging its intellectual capital (not dollar hegemony) to remain the leader in cyberspace and internet marketing and entertainment so that in case of a war, it has more allies than China.
Having more weapons might seem like a winning move but if one has no true allies, they lose.
Ref: The defeat of the well stocked Nazi army.
People fight wars, not guns and weapons. Not even an army of drones I'll argue (they can be hacked).
China has no interest in fighting the USA and the problem is America's debt problem. Seems like there'll be a lot of trade wars on the road to $1 quadrillion in debt. After which point people will maybe realize this is all crazy and they will stop chasing the high of debt cocaine. Maybe we will go back to being religious and to looking to the stars, and to having kids and not not bothering with overpriced fiat school when trade skills are everywhere.