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That Blops2 summary implies the new cold war began because of something China did.
In this timeline it’s 100% the US
Or the Blops2 summary is American propaganda and purposefully avoids mentioning why China did what they did
Dear gods. Without rare earth metals the US could regress technologically. We’d likely revert to cathode ray tubes and other post WW2 tech. That is until fusion is sustainable and then we get fight over energy for some reason. Next thing you know it’s October 23, 2077…
Some wastelander is gonna find my bottle cap collection and get as excited as a pirate finding a buried chest full of gold dabloons. If they don’t immediately go to New Vegas and visit Fisto then I collected them all for nothing
Rare earth metals aren’t even rare though. They are just not found in concentrated form like gold. And metallurgists in the past had a hard time isolating the metals that’s why they called them rare.
It’s just that China can mine them cheaply since the Chinese government doesn’t care about labor rights and the environment. Europe and Australia has rare earth metal deposits.
The US has deposits too. Some of the ones our military equipment needs most are found in Zinc mines and we let our refinery capability for them lapse in the 1990’s. So all we actually need to do is get a refinery built.
Yep just build a refinery over the Easter long weekend
It won’t take a super long time either once they plonk the “national security needs” tag on it to make it immune to impact assessments and such.
Europe and Australia do, but honestly, as a European, I’d rather trade with China than the US right now. Even though both are shit.
Why are we always having to choose the lesser of 2 evils! Where’s the fkn good option!!!
Have you met an Australian recently?
And that’s why all labour rights should be dropped!
Ooh I hope tubes come back. I need cheaper and better quality tubes for my guitar amp collection damn it!
If only we had an ally who needed our oversized military who also had a huge reverse of rare earth elements.
Luckily I’ll be a dead gonk by then… Wait, wrong universe. But no chance I’ll end up as a ghoul.
In the cyberpunk universe the tech exists that we could all still be alive, I mean look at Rogue, she didn’t age a day in 57 years.
But I’m pretty certain I’ll be pushing daises by the time the bombs drop
fact check, true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_II
Black Ops II’s single-player campaign features two connected storylines, with the first set from 1986 to 1989 during the final years of the First Cold War, and the other set in 2025 during a Second Cold War and rare earths trade dispute[15] between the United States and China.
Thd difference is that the president of US is female there, here is just a bitch…
what the fuck does that even mean
Took me a minute to decipher that too. But looking it up, the US president in the game mentioned above is a woman. So they are saying “in the game the president is a woman, in real life he (Trump) is just a bitch.”
Well it could’ve been Copmala IRL, so almost a woman if you neglect that creature is a ghoul
Its okay we have a real life ghoul now in office!
So nothing has changed, the uniparty continuity in action
Cool.
All my homies hate Chinese government
All my homies hate the fascist US uniparty regime
I hate both regimes tbh
OC you do, you’re told to
One does not exclude the other
Poor thing, obsessed with China bcs they made you to for losing hard economically.
And you only hate red MAGA, not blue MAGA so no.
