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buddhamonster posted...

The thing about warfare on the scale this would be is that thats actually exactly the type of thing to kick things into high gear, innovate, and generally get shit done.

And if all else fails, you can always attempt to seize it from your enemies or exploit third parties for them.

Just look at WW1 and 2 as prime examples of this. When push comes to shove, countries have ways of getting resources that may have otherwise been unavailable to them.

the difference is the place with the resources and infrastructure is the homeland of the people we are fighting against. By the time we secure Chinese REE the war would have to be won and the mines would have bombed to oblivion.

we are also talking about elements not compounds. Creating compounds and substitutes is a lot easier than creating elements.

finally, after the introduction of the military industrial complex, the time of waiting around for a war to innovate was over. The US military has been innovating constantly since WWII. If they could innovate their way out of REE they would have by now.

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