I was going to link to an excellent backgrounder at Mining.com on how China captured the rare earths market. The article is highly critical of China for its methods and the U. S. for becoming dependent on China for strategic materials. The article doesn’t articulate it this way but we’re very much in the position that Germany or Japan was in with respect to oil in the 1930s. From a strategic standpoint Germany had to invade the Soviet Union and Japan had to invade Malaysia. Fortunately, we don’t need to invade anybody to correct our position we just need to get our priorities in order and the article makes some fine, practical suggestions for doing that.
Unfortunately, the site is down. Funny, that.
I’ll link to it if and when it comes back up again.
Since we just had the D-day anniversary with lots of great documentaries, (I watched a few), I’ve come to the opinion that Hitler wasn’t forced to attack anyone for lack of resources. These were propaganda used to fuel the energies of the German people.
No one had to convince Germans to hate Jews, but Hitler seized upon the animosity to motivate Germans to vote him into power, and once he had consolidated power, his methods violated every conceivable human norm. In fact, he appears to have been be a nihilist.
I suspect Mining.com probably shifted to another platform.
Is this the article you were looking for?
https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190670931.001.0001/oso-9780190670931-chapter-5
or this?
https://www.australianmining.com.au/features/competing-with-the-chinese-rare-earths-juggernaut
Neither although the first link is closer. The original article was a bit more pointed. Thanks.