China cuts off rare metals from US, EU defence industries, nullifying their attempts at re armament

THE MILITARIES OF US, ISRAEL ARE NOW DE FACTO DE FANGED

ONCE THEY RUN OUT OF THEIR CURRENT MUNITIONS, THERE MAY BE NO NEW SUPPLIES OF MISSILES, WEAPONS FOR YEARS OR ONLY IN VERY SMALL QUANTITIES AFTER CHINA CUTS OF VITAL METALS 

China hs cut off more of the rare earth minerals to the West s military industrial complex making plans for rearmament unrealistic after the US depleted its weapons in the disastrous Iran war. 

US, EU, UK may need  up to ten years to be able to provide themselves with the refinining technology needed to access the  critical rare earth minerals they  have imported from China and which are vital for building weapons.

Recycling and other measures are expected to provide only a miniscule fraction of the criticial minerals needed by the Western military industrial complex.

It was the widely over optimistic estimates of US economic power which led to Kushner, Trump and Navarro threatening China with massive tariffs if they did not do what Kushner s mafia wanted.

China responded by imposing its own tariffs and restricting critical rare earth minerals.

Few experts expect the Epstein oligarchs and the corrupt, shambolic US govrnment  to be able to organize a new industry to refine critical minerals in 50 years, let alone 10.

From media

The European Commission last week said that it will propose a new law that will require companies in the bloc to expand their suppliers to address economic imbalances, although it did not name China.

Russia's war in Ukraine and growing uncertainty over Washington's security guarantees have pushed governments in Europe to increase military spending and production. But for 17 of the 34 materials classified as critical by the EU, China accounts for at least 70% of global mining or refining, a report published by Teer in May shows. Eight of those 34 materials are subject to Chinese export controls.

"China is in the process of pulling the rug out from under Europe's rearmament efforts," said Joris Teer, a policy analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), the bloc's agency for foreign, security and defense policy analysis.

"By just deploying this weapon, China has already increased its leverage, signaling both its capacity and willingness to squeeze supply at any moment of its choosing," Teer wrote.

Escalating geopolitical developments and intensifying global competition for critical raw materials underline the growing need to strengthen Europe's supply chains, said the Aerospace, Security and Defence Industries Association of Europe. The organization represents over 4,000 companies including the U.K.'s BAE Systems, France's Thales and Germany's Rheinmetall.

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