Export controls pose direct threats to U.S. military readiness, highlighting that the country is already lagging behind in defense manufacturing, a new report says.
history suggests that we’ll take genocidal action whenever the american empire needs something, so i’m certain that the military industrial complex will not be the ones getting fucked.
Think theres a misunderstanding here. As far as i know the issue with rare earths isnt like oil or something. You have to process lots of material to get them. You dont find like big deposits of them. You take the normal mined material, process it, and extract the rare earths. So the US cant just invade somewhere and take them. Theyd need to actually build the facilities to process the materials.
history suggests that we’ll take genocidal action whenever the american empire needs something, so i’m certain that the military industrial complex will not be the ones getting fucked.
Think theres a misunderstanding here. As far as i know the issue with rare earths isnt like oil or something. You have to process lots of material to get them. You dont find like big deposits of them. You take the normal mined material, process it, and extract the rare earths. So the US cant just invade somewhere and take them. Theyd need to actually build the facilities to process the materials.