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The United States says it will take "unprecedented actions" to ensure the supply of strategic elements and rare earths, as China mulls possible export controls for materials that are critical to modern technology.
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In December 2017, Trump called on the Department of Commerce and other US agencies to develop new sources of critical materials to reduce vulnerabilities to supply disruptions, especially from foreign sources.The US report calls for improving supplies "through investment and trade with America's allies," while streamlining the issuance of permits for mining in the United States, including on federal lands.
It also lists a plan to improve mapping and data collection to promote domestic exploration.
And to think only a few short decades ago we were going to war for oil...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 06 2019, @04:51AM (7 children)
It is pretty common knowledge... the petrodollar and all that. It is happening right now in Venezuela.
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Thursday June 06 2019, @10:27AM (6 children)
Well, when Venezuela stops shooting itself in the foot, it can start shooting the US invaders, eh? Funny how so many of these modern wars involve self-inflicted injury.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday June 06 2019, @10:50AM (5 children)
Why invade? What are you paying the CIA for anyway?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 06 2019, @11:30AM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday June 06 2019, @11:54AM (1 child)
Fair point. GGP should have said "excercise coercive foreign policy" or some such rather than "war".
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday June 06 2019, @12:10PM
Which would have been much more accurate, particularly, since the thread started by talking about actual wars rather than metaphorical ones.
Of course, one could come up with a less euphemistic approach, such as "US bullying" or the like and still be reasonably accurate. But calling this a "war" as of the bullets-flying, people-dying sort, when mostly it's modest economic sanctions and big mouths talking off the record, is a bit of nonsense.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday June 06 2019, @03:24PM (1 child)
The CIA sucks. It's nothing more than a jobs program for psychopaths who like to torture for fun & profit.
For actual effectiveness and better after-parties my money would be on the Blackwater guys.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 07 2019, @07:49PM
Could you tell us what makes you think you know anything about blackwater (hasn't been called blackwater in ages) or the CIA?
I've had some contact with both and neither of them bothered me but Erik Prince comes from a family that runs a massive cult designed to siphon money from the poor and desperate. I knew someone from that family who was so desperate to get away she ran away and became a prostitute in france so that they would disown her and forget about her. They forcibly extracted her and threw her into a mental hospital.