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China has near global monopolies on these exports, accounting for 98% of global gallium production, 93% of germanium production, and 49% of antimony production.
If the tariffs on solar panels are any indication, this is just going to be an economic stimulus for China's neighbors, who will be able to sell Chinese minerals to the US at what I at least hope will be a generous markup.
That’s exactly what is going to happen lmao the U.S. acts like it can do to China what it does to Cuba. Too late for that no buddy, you sent all of your production there!
It's like I'm taking crazy pills! Why are you fucking with our manufacture base?! We have no alternative!! We need to replace them before we fuck with them.
Same thing happened with honey. Suddenly Vietnam's honey exports magically increased to more than their domestic production. Of course nobody cared because it's all theater.
Really cool and good how we as a country have imperial boomerang’ed so hard that this country is choosing to selectively cherry-pick to have all the bad of the free-market with none of the good.
Economics is when you have blind faith cult adherence to the money line, right?
Whoever has the other 2% of the gallium supply sweating rn
Its Russia lmao and they account for >50% of remaining gallium production
The remaining 1% be sweating then.
The UK
Invade the UK invade the UK invade the UK
Wanna guess who the second biggest (although massively behind obviously) is...?
spoiler
The hermit kingdom of America baby let's keep the isolation going!
So this means we’ll stop being an empire right? 
It’s not what they expect, but yes
Trump: "Make America analogue again!"
Real abacus hours
All the analogcels screeching that they can’t get their germanium diodes
gallium
germanium
it would be really funny if china just started referring to e*ropean countries as if they were provinces of the roman empire again
Death to America
Wtf France has two elements named after it? That's bs
There's a tiny village in Sweden with 4 elements named after it.
there is a place in f*nland called bear's asshole. it is in no way the only place w/ a name like this. why yes i have in fact experienced schlong lake.
js the country is a shit hole BUT having just one scientific thing named after a bizarre location there would do a lil bit to redeem it maybe
this is also the only redeeming feature of terf island, it has an unlimited quantity of extremely rude place names.
but then again, there is a place in spain that basically translates as "the fuck", as in the act of fucking
My personal historical revisionism is thay Gallium was actually named after chickens and not Fr*nce
Is it historical revisionism if it was claimed at the time? Lecoq was accused of naming it after the Latin translation of his own name (Gallum, Cock) and though he denied it, it was never disproven.
Let's bringing back "satellite states" to refer to US vassals.
No gallium, no germanium
The worst “history buffs” you know are in shambles rn
If I gather anything from the more knowledgable people in the comments it is that the US needn't worry, because these resources aren't just exported by China, but also by Russia and no one else in the world. So they just need to cash in those years of Russian goodwill they've built up and this shouldn't be a problem.
Are you telling me that being blindly antagonistic in every corner of the globe simultaneously actually has consequences? Because that sounds like Russian disinformation.
No, it will be fine. Considering how much of the Earth's surface is taken up by Israel and Taiwan I'm sure there is an endless supply of rare earth minerals to go around.
Antimony is a rare earth mineral needed for the production of all modern artillery shells. The US has no antimony mines. China controls its extraction and owns like 90% of the mines in Hunan province. Other mines are located in Russia and South Africa. Bolivia is the second highest producer behind China. Pretty much no other nation produces it. That's it. Four countries.
Bolivia is the second highest producer behind China
Aw fuck. Looks like we'll start seeing mass protests in Santa Cruz
The US national stock pile is set to be depleted in 2025.
It's fucking crazy such a simple weapon hasn't been simplified in its supply chain demand for over 100 years. Antimony is literally used to harden the metal casings of the shells. That's fucking it. Seriously. That's fucking it. For 100 years the greatest most capitalisticalist empire on earth couldn't figure out how to more sustainably harden artillery shells without using a rare earth metal.
Now watch 
invade some random African Country which has these resources.
They dont export these resources. Anitmony can be found in primarily in Russia, but also Myanmar & Bolivia (and Australia), Gallium in Ukraine/Russia, Slovakia as well as the UK lol, and Germanium in Russia and Northumberland
Australia
No need to fear, Americans, we are as always standing ready to be your imperial lapdog 
I just posted this. Antimony is not extracted in any real significant numbers outside of Russia, South Africa, Bolvia, and China. China alone produces over 90% of it. Hunan province is the jackpot on the stuff. Bolivia is the second biggest producer at just under 5%. Russia and South Africa produce about 1-2%. That's it. Some countries have strategic stores of it and some have a small mine here or there that is used purely for themselves because it is all they have. The US has 0 antimony mines currently. The US could waive environmental concerns and heavily subsidize a mine or two but it won't meet the needs of the military to produce the munitions which require it, like artillery shells.
I don't know if it's obvious to folks here or not but these are common for doping silicon chips so they can work as computers. Similarly useful for solar panels.
If US chip companies don't have substantial backup stocks they're screwed.
Oops
Basing my entire economy around just doing whatever makes a line go up has left me with nothing but a line that has more room to drop
America: "You can't do that!" 
I chose the wrong time to try to get a new everlasting pill
I honestly believe it is the intent of the US to go nuclear and destroy the advanced economies of the world to recreate the post world war 2 order where the rest of the world is in ruins except their shining city on a hill
ruh roh raggy
MoA on this
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