I'm pretty confident it realizes nothing

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..