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Dear gods. Without rare earth metals the US could regress technologically. We’d likely revert to cathode ray tubes and other post WW2 tech. That is until fusion is sustainable and then we get fight over energy for some reason. Next thing you know it’s October 23, 2077…
Rare earth metals aren’t even rare though. They are just not found in concentrated form like gold. And metallurgists in the past had a hard time isolating the metals that’s why they called them rare.
It’s just that China can mine them cheaply since the Chinese government doesn’t care about labor rights and the environment. Europe and Australia has rare earth metal deposits.
That Blops2 summary implies the new cold war began because of something China did.
In this timeline it’s 100% the US
Or the Blops2 summary is American propaganda and purposefully avoids mentioning why China did what they did