Posted on 08/26/2024 6:43:17 PM PDT by Red Badger
Per Wiki:
The most common applications for metallic antimony are in alloys with lead and tin, which have improved properties for solders, bullets, and plain bearings. It improves the rigidity of lead-alloy plates in lead–acid batteries. Antimony trioxide is a prominent additive for halogen-containing flame retardants.
Antimony is used as a dopant in semiconductor devices.
I say let them cut it off. Now. Before we are actually at war with them.
Do it you Communist Chinese scumbags.
Uh huh.
I think China is planning on going to war to regain Taiwan sooner than later.
If it looks like Trump is going to win, then they will have to attack before November or before January 20...............
Chinese Communist Party Boss Xie Jing Blofeld.
“As you know, gentlemen, I have taken control of the entire world’s supply of... antimony.”
We have aplenty, it’s just that all the environmental regulations make it damn near impossible to get at.
However, if a POTUS declares a national Security emergency, all those regulations are off the table for the duration............
Well, well...
How does it feel to be entangled in mountains of onerous and conflicting regulations that prevent you from doing what needs to be done when it needs to be done?
Welcome to the real world you (the Congress) have created piece by piece over the past 25 years.
Hopefully a lesson will be learned here (but I won’t hold my breath).
Unfortunately, if Trump wins there is a lot of inertia to overcome to repair what Democrats and RINO’s did for the past 25 years. At Trump’s best, there just may not be the time to undo what was done.
So, I’m expecting China to got to war. They’ve been prepping for it. But they have the benefit of time because the US is so far behind now. Perhaps, if the US can ally itself with the other Asian countries that China is bullying, that we might be able to go to war sooner than that.
Just like people will work damn near any job if they can’t get any food, when we are getting our ass kicked in combat because we can’t produce the equipment necessary to wage war and our commerce gets choked off resulting in people losing their jobs and not being able to eat, those environmental restrictions will evaporate.
There is no law of the universe that says all precious minerals are going to equally distributed around the world.
So when the US can’t produce any, that doesn’t mean government got in the way, and often, when that is the claim, it is made by some mineral company that gets paid to explore, regardless of what the find.
USGS says 80% of the Antimony supply of planet Earth is in China, Russia and Bolivia. That’s just the way it is. It doesn’t have to mean politics got involved. Geology doesn’t care about politics.
The United States Geological Survey has released a new list of 50 mineral commodities critical to the U.S. economy and national security after an extensive multi-agency assessment [2022].
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Critical minerals FAQs [4 page pdf]
It’s crazy. The Communist Chinese are the greatest threat in the world today, and gaslighting us as Biden did by saying they are not our enemy is exactly what the Communists want.
Only an absolute idiot would minimize how they have hollowed out our industrial base, methodically, patiently, and reaping great profits as they do so, would think that they wouldn’t cut off the supply of materials like antimony.
Of course they would, just as we would if we had the switch in our hand for some of the things they do and are going to do.
I would like to believe our reasons would be different, and we might have a higher moral plane to act from, but honestly, with this administration, it would be naive to take that stance. I don’t see this current administration as being all that different from the Communists.
China will subdue the Philippines before Taiwan. If they control the Philippines then Taiwan, Japan, and S. Korea will be unable to to be resupplied from the US.
At least we don’t have to pay our ex-wives anything, anymore!
Rely on your primary global opponent to supply you with critical elements needed for your defense - yeah, sounds like something leftists would do.
Yep. This what not supplying our own rare earth minerals gets us.
Trump can and will do this. And he’ll make China pay for it
Not if Trump is elected!
Red tape is just imagind depending on Who the President is!
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