China produces the entire world’s supply of samarium, a rare earth metal that the United States and its allies need to rebuild inventories of fighter jets, missiles and other hardware.
Yeah, my preference would be for all the generals to come to their senses and realize the continued production of the instruments of death will only lead to tragedy, but in the meantime the lamentation over outsourcing production of critical materials to someone they’ve decided is a mortal enemy is pretty funny.
The downside is that the US will absolutely eventually start digging for it domestically at great ecological cost.
Yeah, my preference would be for all the generals to come to their senses and realize the continued production of the instruments of death will only lead to tragedy, but in the meantime the lamentation over outsourcing production of critical materials to someone they’ve decided is a mortal enemy is pretty funny.
Yeah that’s my read as well, drop regulations and start strip mining like it’s Ghorman.