For anyone wondering what the Hague Center of Strategic Studies is, it’s a Think Tank that has been criticized for not being transparent with where it gets it’s financing from. So there’s often no real way to know if the research is independent.
I agree with the other guy, this sounds sus. Steel, copper? I think we got that. Lithium too. Sure some battery said we may need Africa, South America.
In October 1940, Canada instituted a copper export ban that applied to the United States, except under certain conditions, like U.S. entities fulfilling munitions contracts for Allied countries.
Lol because Canada was at war and the US was not. The US didn’t enter the war until Dec 1941. But this article wants to bitch about us not sending our resources to neutral countries while we were at war? Lolol.
The US has vast deposits of pro much every strategic resource except rubber. Neoliberalism simply decided that American metals weren’t competitive enough (because they would have to oay American wages vs slave wages in other countries) so they have been left alone. If you look a a graph of domestic mineral production, they all crashed in the 80’s. The US didn’t run out of those resources, they jist decided to look elsewhere.
Okay then, send me a million artillery shells
Absolutely, and rebuilding domestic capacity necessary to extract and process resources is going to be a decades long project. That’s assuming there’s even political will to do that.
