You can't just say "China launches new precision strike against pentagon" like that.
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China Launches New Precision Strike Against Pentagon
Rare Earth Supply Chain
On the plus side, we get to watch the western MIC get publicly humiliated without also seeing the world get nuked.
They had me in the first half not gonna lie
“This is not a mere supply chain hiccup, it’s a geopolitical earthquake in slow motion. Every fighter jet delayed, every missile contract disrupted, every paused satellite payload becomes a ripple in America’s strategic posture."
The Americans stretching themselves thin before preparing to fight their greatest adversary yet. If a mere embargo on some metals is a "geopolitical earthquake" for your national security, how could you possibly expect to fight a world war?
NioCorp is developing a critical minerals project in Nebraska that is expected to produce the processed rare earths to which China now seeks to restrict U.S. access, as well as niobium, titanium, and scandium.
Let me guess, it's a private company and will overcharge the government and under deliver.
Let me guess, it's a private company and will overcharge the government and under deliver.
Capitalism will kill itself 
I don't think the government will let them under deliver. Over charge? Definitely. But they'll deliver. The cost will be paid in the environmental impact that the US will do absolutely nothing to mitigate.
I don't think the government will let them under deliver.
I mean, it's not like the US government didn't know about the rare earth metals vulnerability up until now. There must be some reason why even after all this time, they haven't managed to fix this supply chain issue. And as far as I am aware, REMs are used for many civilian applications as well, and the US military could probably manage for a while if the civilian sector took the brunt of the damage.
And there is also the fact that utilization of REMs could be reduced by the military if they stopped forcing every single missile and plane to be some boutique artifact that people will find buried in the post-irradiation ruins of the US a 1000 years from now and wonder if these were ritual tools used for worshiping the gods.
Who'll win?
Our $10 trillion per missile wünderwaffen will ensure our win
It's held together with gaffa and prayers
That is a fascinating choice of titles. So fascinating that I've actually forgotten what it was actually about.
“This is not a mere supply chain hiccup, it’s a geopolitical earthquake in slow motion. Every fighter jet delayed, every missile contract disrupted, every paused satellite payload becomes a ripple in America’s strategic posture. And with Russia and China tightening coordination, this may mark the start of a material cold war fought not with tanks, but with export licenses and embargoes,” he added.
Oh brother... You started it. Not them. Stop being dickheads and they'll stop.
I don't think they will stop, and I hope they will not stop. Let the Yankees sweat. They need to know that playing these embargo games has consequences.
"wow this is the start of a cold war cant believe china would do this" 
This is a precision strike by China
If embargoes are precision strikes, then you started this "war" by embargoing China of advanced semiconductors.
history starts when the non-whites retaliate
If that's a precision strike wtf do they call decades of what they did to cuba etc
This is a press release from a defense contractor
That of itself doesn't make it false though. The fact that China controls majority of rare earth supply chains is well established, and these are inputs for pretty much every bit of high tech equipment.
Agreed, but it's still important context that this isn't a news org
This is from April 4th. it’s the same one as was announced a couple weeks ago :(
Yeah, but the analysis of how it hits US military supply chains is still interesting.
At some point in the design process for all these high tech weapons, there must have been some smart boy somewhere in the Pentagon who asked, "Hey, um, if we end up in a hot war, where are we gonna get all this stuff?" And they told him to shut up—there's money to be made.
-ass title