• Orcinus
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    2 months ago

    I fear the US military will take the rare earth’s from whomever China approves of.

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      If they do China will cut those companies off. So unless the companies are getting paid enough to destroy their rare earth supply line permanently they won’t do it.

      If america had a planned ecconomy they could tottaly do this but because usa’s capitalists all only care abbout themselves they will never destroy their companies unless it is more profitable than keeping their company running.

      • La Dame d'Azur
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        2 months ago

        Unless of course they pull a Hitler and put loyal Nazis in charge of every company.

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          Exactly - Trump’s big missing link is a cohesive industrial policy, so how long does it take him to directly welcome hitlerite ambitions and attempt to create some sort of centralised amalgamation of capital interests under the (inevitable) umbrella of mass militarisation? I mean, the MIC is already there…

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            I feel like it’s too late for that. The US is not an industrial powerhouse. Even if it manages to get it’s shit together, it’s financial systems have reached a complete breaking point. They can’t support an MIC once people start breaking things

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              Yep, true. And at the same time, outsourcing has done so much damage to their manufacturing industry that to save it, several costly interventions would be needed - while they are instead betting all financial injections on AI.

              Goated strat from the world’s most enthusiastic cokeheads.