China has the USA/West over a barrel. Without rare earths supply the US military industrial combine is broke. The US cannot fight a war with China or anyone without rare earths. Trump started a trade war with China but China had prepared by investing in dominating global rare earths supply chains and now Trump must Beg for continued access to rare earths supply chains. Libertarian nonsense that free markets always deliver better results than government involvement and investment in strategic markets has been demonstrably proven complete and utter bullshit.

You are out of touch with the real world economic and military realities of power projection and economic systems and their intertwined nature and I wager you 10000 sats you cannot convincingly refute the above.

Sometimes government must get involved in the provision of strategic supply chains and to not to is negligent.

Rare Earths for example- and there are many more examples in addition to rare earths too.