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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 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.