You make false claims. Because you cannot win an honest debate. I do not ignore America trying- I just point out it is at least a decade and will cost billions of taxpayer funded subsidies for USA to get anywhere near being self reliant in rare earths supply. We have been over this many times and you cannot refute it. Even if USA can rebuild some rare earths self sufficiency the rare earths it supplies itself will be fantasically more expensive than those it has been sourcing from China- because China has deliberately built an entire economy based upon using its scale and planned capital allocations to achieve advantage across the production of manufactured goods and refining supply chains and skills base. The essence here is that your Libertarian 'free markets fix everything' Bullshit has been exposed as- BULLSHIT. It does not work in the real world where other nations can and will build economic capacity in order to project power and achieve self determination rather than being subservient slaves to the US Imperialists. It was clear more than a decade ago how much of a stranglehold China had over rare earths when they used it to pressure Japan- but neither Japan nor USA did anything of any substance about it because they were relying on 'market solutions' where there are none. Please stop grossly misrepresenting what I have written as it make you look like a desperate and dishonest apologist for US Exceptionalism.

You have rarely been capable of credibly refuting any of my posts and comments. Now you have given up completely on any attempt at reasoned debate and contest of ideas. That is your problem, not mine. Your stooping to baseless personal attacks, strawman arguments and blatant hypocrisy is demeaning to the entire process of reasoned debate and democracy. Your US Exceptionalist/Imperialist Libertarian hollow man hype is exposed every time you seek to divert the narrative from the facts and issues I raise.