salt and rocks
https://x.com/Hezbolsonaro/status/1838698521068999103
Why is the US backing an Israeli attack on Lebanon? There's a materialist answer for this. To get at Lebanon's limestone resources. pic.twitter.com/ZqIIPBj5DR
— Liam π΅πΈ (@Hezbolsonaro) September 24, 2024
yeah we need to get that stuff that's literally fricking everywhere. The ground is made of it.
can't forget about salt, a strategic resource because it's 176 AD.
this tweet was particularly amusing. Investigative journ*list over here discovers that a huge mining conglomerate gave an entire $3,000 to Democrats
three thousand entire dollars? It's all a giant top hat WASP conspiracy to divest the innocent brown world of its extremely common resources 
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Natural-resource-tards are so tiresome, especially in regards to america which has pretty much every natural resource imaginable in huge quantities except for rare earths
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Their understanding of geopolitics comes from playing Civ.
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It was probably true like 200 years ago, but aside from geopolitics and oil (being controlled by a cartel) natural resources are just not a problem anymore unless you're poor. Just buy them for a reasonable markup from whoever has them, easy.
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Oil isn't even the same now since the US has become the largest oil producer. OPEC can't cut production to sustain prices anymore because USA just keeps on pumping regardless
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I thought we had those too, and just didn't extract them really.
I know the US is spending a ton on developing rare earth mines.
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The US does have and is discovering quite a bit of new deposits of rare earth elements. But, they are still very dirty to extract and refine so why not let everybody else extract theirs and pollute their own shithole country until they start running low and/or we figure out better methods
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Yeah, I guess that's true as well. Would take a long time (and a lot of subsidies!) to catch up to china, but it's probably a thing america could do if they actually tried
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It has those too, what it doesn't have are active mining and refining operations.
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Send the chuds to the mines.
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https://www.theearthandi.org/post/estimated-2-34-billion-metric-tons-of-rare-earth-minerals-discovered-in-us
We actually have a lot, this is only one area in Wyoming.
California has a shitload but we don't dig them up in a lot of places because 1.) We're not an extraction economy 2.) We don't want to frick up where we live 3.) Cheaper to pay for Chinese mined shit until they run out
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Turns out that owning most of a continent means you have access to almost anything you'd ever need.
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America has the best rare earths
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