China froze all export of antimony. That America must have to make military stuff like that plane

[j_hungary]

Good, hopefully you can turn the tables soon

Thread 'IRONY! US Military Needs China’s Help To Beat Chinese PLA In A War; Report Says Ammo Will Exhaust In 28 Days'

Aug 8, 2024

IRONY! US Military Needs China’s Help To Beat Chinese PLA In A War; Report Says Ammo Will Exhaust In 28 Days​

By Shubhangi Palve
August 2, 2024

In a startling revelation, a bipartisan commission has warned that the United States could exhaust its ammunition supplies in as little as “three to four weeks” if engaged in a prolonged conflict with China.

This alarming assessment, presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee, exposes a critical gap between “the Pentagon’s ambitions and reality” for major warfare.

The 114-page report, compiled by an eight-member commission...

• Beijingwalker
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Oh it's on the internet, it must be true........

 

[SaadH]

Even now. Once USA does things on warfooting, nothing can compare. And espcially China. US is the king of innovation and risk taking. Something china can never dare to do. China and Chinese are very risk averse by nature.

The only way US can again become a manufacturing juggernaut is if it gets rid of it's oligarchy and raises the marginal tax rate to 90% as was the case in the 50's which resulted in peak prosperity and economic dominance for US.

Pigs will fly before the zionist led oligarchy abdicates it's power and excesses hence US economic clout will continue to shrink...

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

The only way US can again become a manufacturing juggernaut is if it gets rid of it's oligarchy and raises the marginal tax rate to 90%

No, we'd have to revoke all the clean water/air/land acts and remove all the legal liabilities related to exposing people to pollutants/hazardous chemicals.

There's talk of surcharging/suing EVs because they cause excessive wear to ties leading to increased toxic micro-particulates in the air and water.

That's the level of crap companies would have to get revoked to increase manufacturing. It's almost impossible to manufacture something without some negative repercussions that will stymie everything.

After Salmon Deaths, EPA Takes Aim at Toxic Chemical Issuing from Car Tires

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After Salmon Deaths, EPA Takes Aim at Toxic Chemical Issuing from Car Tires​

the EPA will study the impact of the rubber preservative 6PPD with an eye to potentially banning its use. Through normal wear and tear, tires shed tiny bits of rubber rich in 6PPD. The preservative reacts with ozone pollution to form 6PPD-q, which is toxic to fish. Rainfall washes the chemical from streets and parking lots into streams and rivers. In the Pacific Northwest, 6PPD-q has proved deadly to coho salmon.

 

[SaadH]

No, we'd have to revoke all the clean water/air/land acts and remove all the legal liabilities related to exposing people to pollutants/hazardous chemicals.

There's talk of surcharging/suing EVs because they cause excessive wear to ties leading to increased toxic micro-particulates in the air and water.

That's the level of crap companies would have to get revoked.

After Salmon Deaths, EPA Takes Aim at Toxic Chemical Issuing from Car Tires

e360.yale.edu

After Salmon Deaths, EPA Takes Aim at Toxic Chemical Issuing from Car Tires​

Nah, biggest hurdle to manufacturing in US is not regulations, a red herring propagated by corporations and their minions, the wanna be billionaire class, the real reason is cost of living wage. Which the oligarchy doesn't want to pay the american workers and would rather outsource to Asia as it preserves it's direct and obscene compensation and has in the process weakened US over the course. The only thing propping up american economy and the lifestyle of it's people is Saudi generosity, which is also waning. De-dollarization is in the offing, it's a matter of when not if, to be replaced by the new comer in the next decade or so I'd reckon.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

the real reason is cost of living wage. Which the oligarchy doesn't want to pay the american workers and would rather outsource to Asia

I guess you must think foreign companies are complete idiots and don't have the intellect or business savy to start a competing company which pays their employees below that "living wage" and upper management "largess" to sell openly on the world market.

as it preserves it's direct and obscene compensation and has in the process weakened US over the course.

Somehow these companies are still alive..I guess because all their Asian competitors are too incompetent to make a product that can compete with a company that consistently overpays its upper management orders of magnitude higher than their own.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Informative post

China also controls Raw material used in manufacturing of Batteries for car vehicles and computers laptops

 

[AjayGhatak]

The only way US can again become a manufacturing juggernaut is if it gets rid of it's oligarchy and raises the marginal tax rate to 90% as was the case in the 50's which resulted in peak prosperity and economic dominance for US.

Pigs will fly before the zionist led oligarchy abdicates it's power and excesses hence US economic clout will continue to shrink...

There is a peace time USA which is a pro profit capitalist paradise.
There is a war time USA which can put together supply lines and chains where none existed.

 

[Beijingwalker]

There is a peace time USA which is a pro profit capitalist paradise.
There is a war time USA which can put together supply lines and chains where none existed.

Modern supply chain like today's would take decades to complete, US manufacturing is delining, not recovering, US has been crying about bringing manufacturing back to US for many decades already, but the reality is the opposite, US deindustrialisation process is just quickening.

 

[Shanlung]

ANTIMONY IS ONLY THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
CHINA HOLDING USA BY THE COJONES IN STRANGLE HOLD
ONLY THING USA CONTROL IS THE PRINTING OF US DOLLARS


https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/16/us-military-china-minerals-supply-chain/

America’s Military Depends on Minerals That China Controls


Rethinking supply chains is vital for U.S. security.
By Morgan D. Bazilian, Emily J. Holland, and Joshua Busby
A conveyor belt carries chunks of cobalt in the Dominican Republic of the Congo.
A conveyor belt carries chunks of cobalt in the Dominican Republic of the Congo.
A conveyor belt carries chunks of cobalt at a plant in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Feb. 16, 2018. Samir Tounsi/AFP via Getty Images
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In 1944, when the outcome of World War II hung in the balance, the rapid advance of Allied forces across Europe suddenly stalled due to fuel shortages. In the famous words of then-Gen. George Patton: “My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.”

Patton’s quote is a testament to the crucial role of supply chains and logistics in military operations. Simply stated, supply chains win wars and save lives. Materials need to be in the right place at the right time.

For the United States today, those materials include many more resources than fuel for tanks. A host of so-called critical minerals are essential to building and maintaining modern weapons systems. In today’s globalized world, the United States and other major world powers are alarmingly dependent on other nations—first and foremost China—for these materials. China’s rapid buildup of a sophisticated military has rendered it America’s most consequential strategic competitor and has set the so-called pacing threat for American defense strategy.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine demonstrated the dangers inherent in heavy dependence on another state, especially a hostile one. The war ushered in the most serious energy crisis since the 1970s and forced Europe, which had become dangerously complacent about reliance on Russian oil and gas, to spend billions of euros seeking alternate suppliers and insulating consumers from inflation and astronomical energy prices.

If you’ve heard of critical minerals before, then it was likely in the context of climate change and the energy transition. Lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, and many other minerals are critical for building electric car batteries, wind turbines, solar panels, and other clean energy technologies. Russia’s war in Ukraine has hastened the clean energy transition and pointed a spotlight on the availabilities of these minerals.


But beyond the national security implications of energy security, a steady and secure supply of critical minerals is just as essential if the United States wishes to maintain its role as a military superpower.

This national security aspect of critical minerals does not garner the same public attention as the energy transition due, in part, to the necessary secrecy that surrounds military preparedness and planning. But the fact remains: The United States and its allies do not produce anywhere near enough of these minerals to maintain our military’s technological edge in the coming decades.

The U.S. Defense Department has also been a longtime leader in materials science and advanced weaponry, fields that require abundant minerals and metals and where demands can suddenly and dramatically jump. Consider the massive shipments of armaments that are going to Ukraine or the armaments that must be stored up for possible postures in the South China Sea.

But maintaining the U.S. military’s existing stockpiles is only one challenge. Despite the fact that the United States is not engaged in direct conflict, the war in Ukraine has depleted U.S. stocks of some types of ammunition to “uncomfortably low” levels. The U.S. Army is now conducting research into how to support its current ammunitions industrial base and has asked Congress for $500 million a year to upgrade ammunitions plants. Developing advanced weaponry will require new critical minerals and the supply chains that deliver them. Advanced semiconductors are crucial components of missile guidance systems, cyberwarfare, and artificial intelligence capabilities. These semiconductors require materials, including gallium, arsenic, and neon—much of which are located and produced in Russia, China, and Ukraine. The United States does not produce gallium, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine halved the world’s supply of semiconductor-grade neon.

The U.S. Geological Survey keeps a list of these and other minerals critical to U.S. national security, economic, infrastructure, and energy needs. In 2018, the list comprised 35 minerals. By 2020, it had grown to 50 minerals, with many focused on military applications. Some of these minerals include titanium for aerospace components, high temperature superalloys for turbines and hypersonic missiles, ceramic matrix composites, and hypersonic thermal protection systems. Another mineral on the list—lanthanum—is used for night vision goggles. Beryllium is used for targeting and surveillance systems as well as for fighter jets.

Some critical minerals are used for the sonar, radar, and surveillance systems that form the U.S. military’s first line of defense. Neodymium and samarium are used for powerful magnets that can withstand high temperatures. Germanium is used for infrared devices and in solar panels on military satellites. Niobium is used in the superalloys that jet engines are made from, and holmium is needed for solid state lasers.

 

[Beijingwalker]

US has been talking about "diversifying" " de-risking" "de-coupling" from China for decades, but the situation is only getting worse for them each passing year.

 

[100%_Guest]

These are tit for tat moves which doesnt really help either countries, same with the semi conductor situation which will make China self reliant and end up competing with other asian and european providers.

Endia's gain?

 

[100%_Guest]

Kids, thats why you do not do drugs....

Saree "KID" Toddy?

 

[100%_Guest]

Bad economy from a few centuries of colonisation.

IN thousands yrs being colonised

 

[100%_Guest]

How is it a "TRADE" war when there is no "TRADE"

USA? but....CN makes billions n billions WITHOUT trade.

 

[j_hungary]

USA? but....CN makes billions n billions WITHOUT trade.

If you make billions and billions without trade then either you are printing it yourself, or you are robbing someone.