China Launches New Precision Strike Against Pentagon Rare Earth Supply Chains | NioCorp Developments Ltd.
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  • ComradeSharkfuckerEnglish
    67•9 days ago

    You can’t just say “China launches new precision strike against pentagon” like that.

  • sodium_nitride [any, any]English
    54•9 days ago

    “This is not a mere supply chain hiccup, it’s a geopolitical earthquake in slow motion. Every fighter jet delayed, every missile contract disrupted, every paused satellite payload becomes a ripple in America’s strategic posture."

    The Americans stretching themselves thin before preparing to fight their greatest adversary yet. If a mere embargo on some metals is a “geopolitical earthquake” for your national security, how could you possibly expect to fight a world war?

    NioCorp is developing a critical minerals project in Nebraska that is expected to produce the processed rare earths to which China now seeks to restrict U.S. access, as well as niobium, titanium, and scandium.

    Let me guess, it’s a private company and will overcharge the government and under deliver.

    • Infamousblt [any]MEnglish
      15•9 days ago

      I don’t think the government will let them under deliver. Over charge? Definitely. But they’ll deliver. The cost will be paid in the environmental impact that the US will do absolutely nothing to mitigate.

      • sodium_nitride [any, any]English
        11•9 days ago

        I don’t think the government will let them under deliver.

        I mean, it’s not like the US government didn’t know about the rare earth metals vulnerability up until now. There must be some reason why even after all this time, they haven’t managed to fix this supply chain issue. And as far as I am aware, REMs are used for many civilian applications as well, and the US military could probably manage for a while if the civilian sector took the brunt of the damage.

        And there is also the fact that utilization of REMs could be reduced by the military if they stopped forcing every single missile and plane to be some boutique artifact that people will find buried in the post-irradiation ruins of the US a 1000 years from now and wonder if these were ritual tools used for worshiping the gods.

  • sodium_nitride [any, any]English
    41•9 days ago

    This is a precision strike by China

    If embargoes are precision strikes, then you started this “war” by embargoing China of advanced semiconductors.

  • Awoo [she/her]English
    39•9 days ago

    That is a fascinating choice of titles. So fascinating that I’ve actually forgotten what it was actually about.

    “This is not a mere supply chain hiccup, it’s a geopolitical earthquake in slow motion. Every fighter jet delayed, every missile contract disrupted, every paused satellite payload becomes a ripple in America’s strategic posture. And with Russia and China tightening coordination, this may mark the start of a material cold war fought not with tanks, but with export licenses and embargoes,” he added.

    Oh brother… You started it. Not them. Stop being dickheads and they’ll stop.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPEnglish
      7•9 days ago

      That of itself doesn’t make it false though. The fact that China controls majority of rare earth supply chains is well established, and these are inputs for pretty much every bit of high tech equipment.

  • Firefly7 [any]English
    18•9 days ago

    This is from April 4th. it’s the same one as was announced a couple weeks ago :(

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]English
    13•9 days ago

    At some point in the design process for all these high tech weapons, there must have been some smart boy somewhere in the Pentagon who asked, “Hey, um, if we end up in a hot war, where are we gonna get all this stuff?” And they told him to shut up—there’s money to be made.