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Originally Posted by ogon_bat
China has already blocked export of rare earth metals and when world oil reserves start to decline you can bet the USA will hog oil exports (they blocked oil to japan before WWII and we know what happened next) which will make whatever oil reserve that region has into strategical reserves.
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Do you know why Rare earth are "RARE?"
BECAUSE THEY ARE TOXIC AS HELL TO MINE.
There are huge reserves of those kind of stuff all over the planet, USA included. China, ignorant of the real dangers, in the 90s sold this stuff really cheap. It screwed the American miners yes, but also spared the American public from dangerous toxic by products. Now days, China want to raise the price and lower production, because they realize this stuff is dangerous.
Solution? Western gov can cancel their version of the EPA and start mining again. Easy...as long as you want to take care of the environmental hazards too.
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Originally Posted by KiraYamatoFan
The scenario from Call of Duty: Black Ops II doesn't sound too farfetched after all. By letting China controlling the entire rare earth element market and now more oil reserves, the entire world economy is running towards a wall and God knows what would happen next on foreign politics as a result.
To close down the subject of oil reserves (and also rare earth metals from mines in Quebec), the Canadian government should have found a way to nationalize the whole shit at home or find ways to keep it safe within our hands instead of selling it to companies mostly owned by China. If anyone thinks that the sale to China doesn't represent a risk to national security, that person is deluded when all signs are pointing towards Cold War II minimum at this rate. For the record, the arms race has already begun and I find it hard to believe this is something you can hide under the rug considering how they started by having a shot at Japan and the Philippines.
I only wish Germans and Japanese are more involved on this rare earth materials market as more trustworthy clients if any. At least, they are not at risk with a military force getting greedier and earning more funds every year passing by.
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Good luck nationalizing oil and gas on a openly traded market. Oh, also there is another word that associated with nationalization. What was it called again? I know Americans absolutely hate the word....
help me out....
oh,
Socialism.
As for military greedy for funds, can you explain to me how that is different than the military of EVERY FUCKEN COUNTRY ON THE PLANET? Shall we start to examine pentagon's budget, which is 7 times of the next guy up, and Britain, a couple islands far from any threat, has more to spent than Russia?