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Israel releasing Marwan Barghouti (a la Mandela in South Africa) is the key to a peaceful solution https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/03/22/marwan-barghouti-jailed-in-israel-since-2002-symbolizes-ordeal-of-palestinian-prisoners_6646539_4.html

Typical wild Internet rumors. But given US industrial and defense vulnerabilities to REE. at least in the short term, they should be plotting covert opeations or concluding a trade deal with China ASAP. Trump started an all-out trade war when theUS was wholly unprepared in key areas. And...

On the rare earths part of this fiasco along, Trump should have to apologize to American citizems. Not in this article but there are rumors out there that US is so desperate now, CIA has been charged to smuggle rare earths from China if they can. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1drqeev36qo

Some country should offer to build several manuf plants in US but only if Trump reinstates DEI policies nationwide and USAID

The good new for US is that China will likely overplay its hand with Europe and Asia and blow the huge opportunity Trump's ineptness has given them

The only way to describe President Trump's tariff policies is "rash, reckless incompetence." His fundamental misreading of the strenths of US vs China led to the rare earth fiasco and has placed the US in some stratgic danger for the timne being. If a Democratic President had shown this level...

Trump thinks people from Japan and Francer are screwing US by not buying F-150 trucks to bnavigate narrow streets in Tokyo and Paris.

An even better solution would have been to use low-interest loans and subsidies to encourage US and foreogn companies to solvew raare earths and expand manuf in the US. As Biden was doing. Just expand those efforts and avoid the destrictive tariffs which were done mostly to subsidize a tax...

https://www.csis.org/analysis/consequences-chinas-new-rare-earths-export-restrictions

The US was the leading producer of rare earth metals from mid-60s to mmid-80s and then ceded that to China. So we hgave beern vulnerable for 40 yeas but China kept sending even when we put export controls on things, It took Trump and his ill-orepared trade war to get China to restrict rare...

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/15/us-is-unable-to-replace-rare-earths-supply-from-china-warns-csis-.html