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You want me to predict what future military things are going to be made out of.... what? Its hilarious that you think that companies give exact percentages of things as well. There are somethings in the world that are classified and how to make a F-35 and what exactly it is made out of is guess what one of those.
You do not know if when or if ever US military industrial combine will be independent of reliance upon Chinese refined rare earths supply chains.
Thank you for confirming this.
Your faith in the power of legislation to repair the decades of decline in US military industrial complex supply chain capacity is charming, but not based on anything more than blind US exceptionalist hubris.
The US military industrial complex is a hollow man - headless chicken lacking vital supply chain support structures due to decades of the systemic neoliberal decimation/global outsourcing of US industrial productive capacity.
It is not only refined rare earths supply chains where the US military industrial complex is deficient, but in a plethora of other strategic supply chains which China now dominates.
There is no guarantee future administrations will continue with the massive taxpayer subsidies being applied currently to stimulate US refined rare earths supply...so you cannot reasonably be certain the process will succeed as it will not be completed under the current administration.
You repeatedly spout bold claims without the required backing of relevant data and evidence.
You are a taxpayer funded apologist for the critical failure of US military to plan vital strategic supply chain resilience.
Specifically what percentage of the US military and its suppliers needs can be provided by non Chinese refined rare earths suppliers now and into the future?
S I L E N C E !
The US will never be self reliant without massive ongoing taxpayer funded subsidies to refiners and those supplies will take at least a decade to be capable of full US self reliance free of Chinese supplies.