They are, but we have plenty of Zinc mining we can get it from ourselves. It's just an economics matter, so we'd subsidize that. We only use enough to fill one truck load per year. So it's likely we'd just get a defense contractor to do it and subsidize it
Antimony comes from Stibnite and is available in Europe and Canada. We're not running out of that any time soon.
I just can't with Trump anymore. The GOP would never go for it simply because it would blow up the comfy political scene they have going. And if we're doing it violently... Well I wouldn't want to be the one seeing what new war crimes the Canadians invent this time. (they're responsible for something like half of the geneva convention that deals with soldiers fighting soldiers.)
We're heavily subsidizing chip production in the US. If this actually has any impact (China isn't the only exporter of this stuff) we would literally just pay Raytheon or Lockheed, (Boeing is in the dog house, they know what they did) to refine it from our own mines. These are all byproducts of more common metals we already mine.
If it became an issue we would over pay Raytheon to refine it.
They produce 98% percent of low-purity Gallium. We produce plenty of high purity Gallium, and Gallium, like Germanium, comes from Zinc mining. Which we still do plenty of in the US. So if we need more high quality Gallium, it's not going to be hard to get.
This is China banning the export of it's rare metals to the US. We're not even going to notice it. We have these available to us from other sources and domestic mining.
It's a free, unclassified, pdf from a .mil. Treat it like an academic study and scroll to the conclusion. The takeaway is that unless we've let something slide since 1989 we produce enough Germanium for our own use and could scale it up properly in a large war scenario. And a quick check shows the companies they mention either still in operation or sold off in a bankruptcy and still in operation.
That's not going to fly when the entire country saw him sweep the swing states. That's part of the fuckiness of the EC, he only won by a tiny margin but visually state after state went red on the TV.
You don't care about the facts. You said so yourself. You're just here to hate on Biden and his son.
Banning them, even under Martial Law is illegal.
Technically he has the power. Double technically though Congress can shut him down right away, or even make an invasion illegal while he's still mobilizing troops.