Who’s going to tell Trump we have rare earths at home?
Keeps them away from China.
Get Ukraine's first so we can preserve some of ours longer, while we mine baby mine the rare earths here that Ukraine doesn't have.
While we also drill baby drill for oil and natural gas. While we build hydro power wherever possible (I think it's about maxed out in red states like Alabama and Tennessee, which are 2nd and 3rd in hydro power of all states east of the Rockies). While we mine cobalt from Minnesota.
We should do everything we can to be energy independent and be an energy exporter so they rest of the world has no control over us, but has to pay attention to us. I'd say we should build nuclear but that'd mean buying uranium from Russia thanks to Hillary Too-stupid-to-jail Clinton and her Uranium One.
I’m sure he knows, better than you. But why shouldn’t Ukraine pay us back for the 300 billion we’ve sent them?