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China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech (cleantechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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So here we are. China has responded to Trump’s tariffs by cutting off U.S. supply of some of the most essential ingredients of the modern world. The U.S., meanwhile, is standing in the cold, holding a clipboard and wondering where the magnets went.

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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I’m surprised they didn’t do it a long time ago. There’s clearly powerful people who want a hot war with China. Why the hell would they help us build the weapons to do so?