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China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech
(cleantechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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What's funnier is that the Americans could have dropped Chinese raw materials if they had built a collaboration before tariffing China, but the current Government have only one tactic: try to bully everyone at once. They really did make their own mess.
View from inside the funny farm: I just hope we can remove the head clown and tell the rest of the world "sorry about that, we'll try to not let it happen again, can we just call a do-over?"
Problem is, we had that chance. This was the do over. Half the country doubled down.
To be fair, I was afraid T1 was going to be much more like T2, but I think the powers that be were in shock with what fell in their laps and couldn't organize quickly enough to be "as effective" as they are this time with 8 years of prep time.
They had 4 years to engineer another Brexit, and they made it stick again - my neighbor still is living in some kind of reality distortion fog even as of last weekend.