First I thought “what’s a twink tank?” Then I cleaned my glasses.
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Can you imagine trying to go to war with a country that supplies the precursors to your weapons? Only our brainless bunkhumping politicians apparently.
truly is wild to watch
It's endlessly funny to me that America built up the largest military the world has ever seen, one that's built around all these high-tech cutting edge wunderweapons, and it didn't once occur to them that they should have the ability to actually produce the fucking things under less-than-perfect conditions (say if your goal is eventually declaring war on the county that sells you the basic building blocks needed for every weapon more complex than a bayonet)
if there was any semblance of central planning in the U.S. they would have been buying up and stockpiling bars of rare earth metals in government warehouses
but there's no profit in that
Hence why they're gonna rob Ukraine for every last penny.
From what I've read, Russia controls most of the rare earths there already. Could be why Trump admin wants to make a deal with Russia so badly.
Yeah, but American Hubris is a hell of a drug. They think they'll still win somehow.
Not even a rust belt to hold up their pants anymore. The empire has no clothes.
Calling imperialistic militaries 'defense' is one of the weirdest-ly successful and ubiquitous propaganda shit. Then you get to call it a 'defense threat' as sif someone is about to or has any interest in invading the US. It's the one thing to be pretty much literally 
The US' inability to replace rare earth supply poses a threat to the US' ability to do overseas killing. Which is a great thing.
If I was Denmark (and I guess rest of nato), I'd be very worried about Greenland.
Many of the rare earths could be mined in the US, we just didn't have any of the extraction or refining processes set up to do so.
WOW IF ONLY ONE COULD HAVE FORSEEN THIS!!!
Ahh laying the groundwork for our next resource war eh?
:weird:
