• ryannathans@aussie.zone
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    26 days ago

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

    • DoubleSpace@lemm.ee
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      26 days ago

      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.

      • Aqarius@lemmy.world
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        25 days ago

        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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            25 days ago

            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.