Really cool and good how we as a country have imperial boomerang’ed so hard that this country is choosing to selectively cherry-pick to have all the bad of the free-market with none of the good.

Whoever has the other 2% of the gallium supply sweating rn

The hermit kingdom of America baby let's keep the isolation going!

Trump: "Make America analogue again!"

gallium

germanium

it would be really funny if china just started referring to e*ropean countries as if they were provinces of the roman empire again

Death to America

No gallium, no germanium

If I gather anything from the more knowledgable people in the comments it is that the US needn't worry, because these resources aren't just exported by China, but also by Russia and no one else in the world. So they just need to cash in those years of Russian goodwill they've built up and this shouldn't be a problem.

Antimony is a rare earth mineral needed for the production of all modern artillery shells. The US has no antimony mines. China controls its extraction and owns like 90% of the mines in Hunan province. Other mines are located in Russia and South Africa. Bolivia is the second highest producer behind China. Pretty much no other nation produces it. That's it. Four countries.

Now watch invade some random African Country which has these resources.

I don't know if it's obvious to folks here or not but these are common for doping silicon chips so they can work as computers. Similarly useful for solar panels.

If US chip companies don't have substantial backup stocks they're screwed.

Oops

I chose the wrong time to try to get a new everlasting pill

I honestly believe it is the intent of the US to go nuclear and destroy the advanced economies of the world to recreate the post world war 2 order where the rest of the world is in ruins except their shining city on a hill

ruh roh raggy

MoA on this

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