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. imo ymmv .“There is no heavy rare earths separation happening in the United States at present,” CSIS said, though it noted the development of these capabilities is underway.
For example, the Department of Defense set a goal to develop a complete rare earth element supply chain that can meet all U.S. defense needs by 2027 in its 2024 National Defense Industrial Strategy.
Let China eat it’s rare earth elements
Fork in the road. Buy minerals from somebody planning to conquer and kill you, or find another source.
Tough choice.
Oh. . . wait
... but Zelensky... Ukraine...
...pipeline...
“The United States is particularly vulnerable for these supply chains,”
Why yes, brought to you by the uniparty for two generations.
China’s been going around the world the last 20 years sucking up rights to rare earth elements. Our people pretended it wasn’t happening. In Africa they would make loans for projects and then expect these countries to pay them back (unlike us who tend to forgive everything if our corrupt politicians are paid for ‘speeches’)
If we think it’s bad right now - it’ll be a million times worse in 6 years - - if/when we’re at war with them.
Better to confront that issue now while we are not yet in a shooting war.
CNBC -a rat propaganda op masquerading as a financial network. Moving on.
It’s not inability. It’s hostility. The trace mineral deposits we have were carefully sequestered by “environmental” set-asides, with investors in foreign deposits involved.
And we could stop coal exports to China. We could stop all mineral shipments to China.
They would fall apart much more quickly than the US.
These are scare stories promoted by people who literally do not know what they are talking about.
Maybe. The job of a think tank are similar to war games. Take an extreme stance on a possible problem to push to make things better. Strategic hypercritical, my way of putting it. Take it with a pinch of salt. Doesn’t mean it isn’t a problem, it means it isn’t necessarily doom and gloom.
China’s rare-earth monopoly has been a headline for AT LEAST the last 10 years.
And besides a lot of government reports and “analyst” hand-wringing - almost nothing has been done about it.
The resources are out there. Cheap supply from China has inhibited exploration and development of those resources. Although it may take some time, I’m sure we can do just fine without China.
+ = . imo ymmv .Well then, I guess we’ll need to reopen our rare earths mines and reopen some processing centers.
Screw Gaia.
Of course we know how we got here.
Big shot deep state globalist NGO housed in their fabulously luxurious digs in DC.
It’s not like all the rare earths all somehow managed to wind up deposited in China. Decades of environmental regulation have destroyed US capacity to extract minerals from our own soil. The time to fix it is now.
Google NIOCORP
We can thank the tree huggers and EPA for not allowing any mining of these “rare earth” minerals.