• ryannathans@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    Everyone is somehow missing China cutting off rare earth metals the US relies on for technology and defense

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      It wasn’t just stopping exports to the US, they’ve stopped exporting rare earth elements worldwide starting yesterday. Plus, they are starting to unload billion of debt we owe them. It’s almost as if Trump is intentionally trying to destroy our country in the morning, and then later in the day he wants to be the bully negotiator without understanding his precarious position.

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        You remember r/shitamericanssay? Last time he won, there were a lot of people talking about stuff Europe has but America doesn’t, and, if you browse the posts there, a lot of Americans responding how Europe is backwards, in the stone age, and what they do have is paid for by America, out of benevolence.

        Well, those folks are in charge now.

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          Our EU ‘leaders’ are US bootlickers.
          They’re a bit upset now that master is angry.

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            The master isn’t angry, the master croaked, and his idiot son with anger issues is in charge now. The only question is if the EU will have the foresight to see the writing on the wall and bail before they’re caught in the undertow.

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              Like I said, our EU leaders are puppets, they don’t have our interests in mind.
              They were perfectly fine with the slow death of seeing the economy and people suffer after the Nordstream US terrorist act.
              Not a peep from them.
              And even now they’re doing exactly what Trump wanted, spending more on useless killing toys.
              And it’s a whole lot more.
              Every country’s going to spend billions of money they don’t have and you know where they’re going to get it from.
              The already unhappy lowest layer of the population.
              Probably the last drop to push the extreme right in power. We’re almost in the 30’s again.

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                “And even now they’re doing exactly what Trump wanted, spending more on useless killing toys.”

                Useless? Russia invaded Ukraine. Putin won’t stop there.

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                  To be honest, it doesn’t look like that one’s gonna be his decision to make.

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                    If Putin invades, we will need to go to eastern front anyway, better go with killing toys than without them.

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                At least they seem to be buying domestic this time around. I mean, I fully expect them to Hillary it, despite everything, but it’s not impossible to pull out of the tailspin yet.

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        5 days ago

        There wouldn’t be much point merely stopping export to the US because some other country could just on-sell to the US.

        He really doesn’t understand his precarious position and the harm he has done and is doing.

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        5 days ago

        I think the story here will go very differently now that the US army can’t ensure it’s exclusively pro-US.

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      5 days ago

      I’m realizing the structure of our supply chains is not common knowledge at all. Basically everything has a part from China. That and plastic.

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      Canada didn’t. It’d be a primary reason for the US to go stupid and try invading us, we’re a much closer source of rare earths.