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China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
(cleantechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
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I despise the fucking CCP and PLA, but shoving this move up Krasnov's ass is a good one.
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
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
Canada's entire standard of living is the US.
Was the US. That mistake is being rectified.
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!!
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.
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.
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?
I drink your milkshake.
It's one milkshake, is it worth five dollars?
Cant take more than 2-3 months to move Terbium mining to Ohio.
What if we took China's factories and PUSHED THEM somewhere ELSE
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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Pikachu O face
The era of Geoeconomics has begun.
Human nature is geoeconomical ):
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.
You're thinking like he still needs to be elected again and popularity matters.
One way or the other, Trump is going to rule America until he dies or is in prison.
We need to change this rhetoric. Trump isn't going to be hurt by this. It's more apt that he's taking a machine gun to all of our feet. He hasn't been held accountable for anything he's made us suffer through.
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, while pretending he's not doing it on purpose so he can keep doing it.
When you look at it that way, all his actions make perfect sense. He works for Putin and he's doing a good job. Until people realize this he'll keep sabotaging the US.
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.
I think he might actually be that stupid tho
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.
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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He can be both: working for Putin and a complete moron.
You don’t threaten to sue the school you attended if your grades are released unless you know they are nothing to be proud of. Also, that professor or teacher that said Trump was the dumbest student he had to teach in all his years.
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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 start intimidating Greenland/Denmark.
Genuinely never thought I'd join the war on China on the side of China.
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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But didn't Trump tell them not to retaliate? I'm pretty sure Trump told them not to retaliate. I don't understand.
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I think we're in stage 2 now: find out
Part of me hopes that other countries that have also had some populist fascist groups making waves recently would see how bad we've fucked up and not go down the same path. But we sure as hell didn't seem to learn anything from Brexit about isolationism
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How badly do you need to fuck up so that China is the one we're rooting for? JFC.
That’s not a problem I’ll just go ask one of my historical trade partnohnoholyfuckwhatdidijustdo.
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