Posted on 04/24/2020 6:14:52 AM PDT by Hamiltonian
[Germany and Japan learned what it meant to be dependent upon others for raw materials the hard way in WWII.]
This is America. There’s plenty of blame to go around.
Should be... unless we castrate congress .. term limits etc..
What about those who couldn't find Wuhan on a map three months ago? Were you guys idiots, too?
But recall we shut off the oil to Japan....as did I think did the British and Dutch.
[But recall we shut off the oil to Japan....as did I think did the British and Dutch.]
They also overreached, big time. If they hadn’t attacked Pearl Harbor or the PI, there’s no way the US would have fought Japan. They could have overrun the Shell oilfields in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and there’s nothing FDR could have done about it, given that the American public wasn’t too anxious to risk a repeat of what had happened in WWI - the loss of 100,000 doughboys in 1 year of fighting.
https://mpmaterials.com/about/ the hedge funds etc are there solely to make deals and money. Patriotism is not in their dna.
personally I am tired that none of our news presents this as an attack on the world, china didn’t care if they killed a million of their own to get deniability as to the attack it has begun on the world, and like Islam if we cannot say these bastards released this on us, I’ve heard terms so they could level the playing field, my butt, so they could win the war..we live in ostrich land, I say do no more business with them and prepare for war, or just hit them..its going there anyway..
Tin, fluorospar, graphite? I think southern Missouri still has tin and graphite. If memory serves, they couldn’t afford the cleanup.
He's only predicting this because this has always happened in every administration that he's been involved with.
Bkmrk
Yes
The point is if you take credit for things going well, then be prepared for the blame when things go badly. One of the greatest failings of the presstitutes was their failure to excoriate FDR for his actions leading to Pearl Harbor; he provoked it with a blockade where we had no business taking sides and appointed people who failed to prevent it.
All these CEO types annoy me for the same reason- they want the glory when the stock price goes up, but it’s always some extrinsic circumstance when it goes down.
I like a lot of President Trump’s policies and actions; compared to any idiot the Democrats had or have he’s our best shot at keeping some small vestige of a free republic, IMHO he needs to fish out Harry Truman’s sign and look at it every day, though “The Buck Stops Here”.
Not just the PRC ... Russia was funding some of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
The Chinese probably were as well because they’d prefer that Canadian oil be directed to them.
Whoa!
We should have mines and refining facilities ready to go for all of the materials we need.
However, perhaps not that bad of an idea to deplete the Chinese and other sources first?
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No we need to start YESTERDAY!
A lot of the Chinese products are defective ON PURPOSE.
Tungsten mines a few miles south-east of Gardnerville Nevada were still productive after W.W. II but closed when price supports were not renewed.
When I visited the site I found bags of ore still sitting on pallets.
The area was a patented mine site, and is now being developed as housing.
We have resources but conniving vermin like Dingy Reid continue working to place them off limits to development.
Rescind the Black Rock Wilderness and NCA!
I hope Fauci really has been indicted.
Everything produced at this mine should go into the national stockpile, not be used in commerce. Have a couple of years of normal demand in reserve, then begin sales.
For tha matter, since oil is so cheap and our oil companies need sales to keep employees on, I hope that we have been buying massive quantities for our national stockpile.
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