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Crippled is a bit much. All these talking about trade and rare earths is just talking points of MSM.
If the US was so crippled why hasn’t china taken over Taiwan? Or even attacked the USA?
Things in China are dire. I am not sure if you ever been there but every single person I met who has been there talked about the low quality of life there.
I'm pretty confident it realizes nothing
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You are ignoring the fact that the substitution of rare earth (and equivalents) supply the US has managed so far is insignificant and does not in anyway revive the US military industrial combine to a level of significant and sustainable military materiel production capability and will not for at least a decade in the very bast case scenario.
Trump is now implementing mass scale State Capitalism as this post you made details and you feel surprised! I have tried telling you for months but you did not and still cannot deal with it. Saving face is not solely an oriental preoccupation it seems. You can guffaw and chortle with your sidekicks and sock puppets all you like it does not change the fact that you cannot refute the fact that US military do not have anywhere near the capacity to make and maintain their existing war materiel due to China controlling the supply of refined rare earths vital to the manufacture of most high tech US military equipment. In most cases substitutes are inferior and incompatible with existing designs and anyway the volume of supply is completely insignificant and will be for at least a decade.
You are unable to acknowledge the US military is now largely crippled because it shows the complete incompetence of US imperialism that pays you to be its apologist..
Crippled is entirely appropriate but most in the west prefer to ignore the reality because it is challenging to their sense of inflated entitlement and superiority that has accrued over 5 centuries of global domination - however if you look at the evidence the US military industrial combine is truly fucked without the refined rare earths China controls supply for.
Why hasn't China taken over Taiwan? You think they are as stupid as that? Think a little more about the situation and what China seeks to achieve...I am not here to explain everything for you.
But think about how China might be a lot smarter than the US empire that has squandered its hegemony and is now on its knees to China.
China need not rush or even turn to crude military violence- all the strategic advantages are increasingly falling into its lap. It seems much more inclined to the subtle power of mercantile leverage. As the dominant global manufacturing nation and increasingly developed in high tech production Taiwans future economic prosperity is increasingly tied to China, not the declining and sclerotic and dysfunctional USA.
Read some history and try to understand the Chinese mindset- it is in many ways a lot more sophisticated than the crude swashbuckling western imperialists.
At the very least read up on eating bitter.
I love how you have ignored the fact the US is now producing rare earths and permanent magnets. I mean we literally figured out how to produce permanent magnets without rare earths which was what made rare earths important.
Saying the US is crippled is the stupidest most bone headed comment one could make. If we didn’t have these magnets we wouldn’t be able to amp up production but we are. Like you said China has cut back on selling duel use rare earths so the US adapted. It’s what we do.
You are ignoring the fact that the substitution of supply the US has managed so far is insignificant and does not in anyway revive the US military industrial combine to a level of significant and sustainable military materiel production capability and will not for at least a decade in the very bast case scenario.
You are paid to calm the peasants and spin the narrative to prevent panic, but I am not held to such directives- I can speak the brutal truth.
Yes- without a secure supply of refined rare earths the US military industrial complex cannot produce much of the high tech war materiel required to fight as modern war, let alone maintain a modern economy. Crippled is perfectly appropriate description of the state the US military industrial complex is in today...though they might not want to acknowledge it and are probably mounting the Venezuela gunboat diplomacy to demonstrate some remaining capacity- but as far as any large scale military conflict of any duration the US military is crippled at least until it can regain secure supply of refined rare earths.