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So confident in the IP regime of the US military

Let's go Keysenianismo!

Ooohhh that makes a lot more sense now

Wow, no mention of the fact that Libya was one of these most robust, resilient, and effective economies in all of Africa until the US destroyed it, mass murdered its people, tortured its leaders, and left it ruin.

I think that, of all the governments on the planet, there's no better government on the planet to have this particular power than the government of the PRC.

Rare earth is absolutely crucial for the war machine:

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3700059/dod-looks-to-establish-mine-to-magnet-supply-chain-for-rare-earth-materials/

https://www.army-technology.com/features/securing-the-rare-earth-supply-chain-is-crucial-for-defence/

https://nma.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/infographic_defense-01.pdf

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/15/us-is-unable-to-replace-rare-earths-supply-from-china-warns-csis-.html

https://www.army.mil/article/227715/an_elemental_issue

This framing takes all comparison out of the equation. The reality is that oil was monopolized by the white supremacist patriarchal capitalist North Atlantic Eurocentric empire - the same empire that has been dominating the globe for 500 years; the empire that invented racism as we know it today; the empire that at one point dominated 80% of the world population; the empire that dropped nukes on civilians; the empire that starves entire nations hoping the desperation of the people will cause them to get rid of leaders who are not aligned with the empire; the empire that trained death squads to go and murder entire families in cold blood for decades across multiple continents.

China is withholding critical materials from that empire. It's not just a country holding something back from another country in a political vacuum. We're talking about the actual real historical process of resisting the bloodiest and most brutal empire humanity has ever seen. Yes, it will make the USA seethe and seek to dominate via violence but they already do that every single day. Starving the war machine is exactly what needs to be done right now for the sake of everyone and everything on this planet.

China has not dropped a single bomb in conflict since 1979 - 46 years ago. They have a nuclear policy of non-first-use. They have a consistent diplomatic policy of respecting everyone's national sovereignty, of resolving conflict through patience and mutual understanding.

Why don't you like them having such diplomatic power over industrial materials? Because they might use that power to push more nations towards mutual development and away from wasting resources on building more weapons in arms races?

Flying strategic nuclear B-52 bombers in Ukraine as part of NATO exercises is not pepper spray

Agendas create software.

So let's say sea levels are on the rise everywhere, right? And then let's say a journalist says "something strange is going on in the Indian Ocean, it's rising", yeah? And they never once mention anything about any other oceans. Would that be appropriate journalism? If someone says "Hey, all oceans are rising" are you gonna say "that's whataboutery"?

No, you're not. So when propaganda is on the rise globally, with the USA and Europe leading the pack as they have been for several hundred years, and someone writes an article about Chinese propaganda being on the rise, and they work for one of the propaganda outlets of an enemy of China, do you think that would appropriate journalism?