I am flooded with news I don’t even know where to begin first the US and AUS made a deal about their rare earth minerals second Venezuela’s about to go to war and third the government is still in shut down? And to top it all off theres an ai bubble thats about to burst I don’t even know what’s going on anymore half time the world goes back to a semblance of sanity and the next some of the goofiest shit happens I can’t tell if Trump will succeed by some divine miracle or if the incompetence of his own cabinet and himself will derail him
No, Venezuela is just a bandaid fix for the bauxite and oil, China still controls the vast majority of rare earth minerals that the US is in desperate need of ever since they shot themselves in the foot with the trade war. Keep in mind the maintenance of the US war machine gets more expensive by the day and a growing number of vehicles aren’t even combat ready anymore. Combined with the depletion of the Tomahawk missile thanks to our buddies in Iran and the Russia-Nato war and one starts to see that the US truly is just a paper tiger.