So the administration /Donald Trump does not want to shift funds for SNAP,
Well they decided to pay the military and ICE during the shutdown.
And lest we forget they recently found 40 Billion — yes – Billion to send to Argentina.
So lately I have been reading a lot about rare earths. My conclusion: the U.S. will NOT be able to completely overcome China’s chokehold on rare earths or become completely self-sufficient in rare earths — not in 5, 10, 20, 30 years or even longer. The U.S. will always have to rely on China for rare earths — specifically, heavy rare earths.
Even if the U.S. makes every move perfectly, maybe in about a decade it will be able to scrape together self-sufficiency in LIGHT rare earth elements (LREEs). LREEs — neodymium, cerium, lanthanum, etc. — are not actually rare. They are scattered everywhere: Mountain Pass in California (bastnäsite), monazite sands, deposits across the world. LREEs are no big deal.
HEAVY rare earths elements (HREEs) — dysprosium, terbium, yttrium, gadolinium — are actually RARE rare earths. They are geochemically scarce and tend to concentrate in ion-adsorption clays that are relatively easy and cheap to leach and process. The bulk of these ionic-clay HREE deposits are in southern China and neighboring Southeast Asia (notably Myanmar and parts of Vietnam) — a geological and geopolitical belt China effectively controls.
Australia has a sliver of HREEs, but mostly as hard-rock xenotime, which is more difficult and expensive to mine and process. Australian output has been small and almost all of its HREEs still flow to China for downstream processing. The only exceptions: in May 2025, Lynas mines started shipping dysprosium and terbium oxides from Australia to Malaysia for processing. Then, in October 2025, it fell under Beijing’s new export and regulatory controls — because the Malaysian plant still uses Chinese machines and chemicals.
Greenland contains HREEs too (e.g., Kvanefjeld), but they are locked in hard-rock eudialyte/steenstrupine that requires brutal, costly processing and has big political/environmental hurdles. Compared with southern China, Greenland’s reserves are small and operations are slow to come online.
Bottom line: those three regions (southern China/SE Asia, small Australian hard-rock pockets, and Greenland) are where HREE mining for now and the foreseeable future is feasible. The U.S. has virtually no HREE deposits of consequence. HREE productions are not something the U.S. can “mobilize” or “warp-speed” out of in a crisis — not in wartime timescales.
• Dysprosium + Terbium: Improve high-temperature magnetic stability — critical for jet engines, guided-missile actuators, and electric motors in F-35s, drones, and naval propulsion systems.
• Yttrium: Used in targeting optics, phosphors, sensors, and laser rangefinders.
• Gadolinium: A neutron absorber — key material for nuclear reactors and sonar systems.
China’s southern ionic clay deposits account for roughly 80–90% of the world’s economically viable HREE resources due to unique geology, and about 99% of global HREE production and supply due to exclusive separation and refining technology. China is roughly 20–30 years ahead of everyone else in industrial-scale HREE separation and processing, and Beijing is not about to share that technology.
HREEs must be refined to ultra-high purity level — 99.999% or better (“five nines” or 5N+) for high-performance magnets, lasers, and avionics. A single decimal shortfall — 99.998% instead of 99.999% — degrades coercivity and heat resistance, rendering the material unfit for F-35 motors or missile gyros. Only China possesses that level of industrial-scale purification know-how — and China ain’t sharing.
It makes absolutely no sense for China to keep selling HREEs to the United States. It’s like handing your adversary the gun and the bullets he’ll use to shoot you later. If China and the U.S. ever go to war, Beijing’s first move will be to cut off all HREE exports to the U.S. and its allies. The American stockpile would last maybe 6–12 months — 18 at most if old components and magnets are stripped for recycling. After that? Game over. China can just wait and be patient.
I haven’t even seen the U.S. media, analyst, pundit or think tanks start distinguishing between heavy and light rare earth elements. Western outlets keep repeating that tired line — “rare earths aren’t really rare; they are everywhere” — which only applies to LREEs.
Meanwhile, Trump has been signing “rare earth” deals with Australia and others, apparently without realizing it is HREEs, not LREEs, that actually matter. Americans are delusional if they think they can close the HREE gap with China in 5, 10, 20, or even 30 years. The U.S. might eventually match China’s rare earth processing technology, (i.e., “might”,) but there is no way the U.S. will overcome the geological reality.
China truly hit the geological and technological jackpot with HREEs. You could almost say: “God has forsaken America — your God is with the atheist Chinese commies now.”
Actually, just kidding. China isn’t all atheists. It does have Christians, (surprise!) but here is a fun fact: many Christians in China even believe Trump is sent by God — but unlike in the U.S., they see him as God’s Chosen to weaken America, clearing the path for China to rise.
to get production back to the U.S.A., will almost be impossible. america was stripped of its capabilities by a regime loaded with cranks and charlatans from 1993-2001, and still is.
“The U.S. government sold off its entire strategic reserve of rare earths between 1994 and 1998. The agency’s strategic reserve now holds only small amounts of rare earth oxides and dysprosium metal. None are in a form that can be directly utilized by our defense industry. The GAO reported that these materials would need to pass through a Chinese supply chain in order to be utilized.”
Useful information KT. What that means is they need to find substitutes for the HREs. Don’t say it isn’t possible, because it almost always is.
Of course, cutting research, especially fundamental research, is exactly the wrong way to go about it.
The US’s days as the premier great power are done. It’s that simple. They’ll be lucky to hold control of the Americas, I don’t think they will. They might not even keep control of Mexico and Canada given how badly they’re fumbling the ball.
Another part of the REE story: processing any of these ores into ingots requires procedures that throw off a lot of pollution. Some currently operating Chinese sites have poisoned their local environments. I do not believe that Americans will be allowed to set up ore-to-ingot REE processing operations here.
Also, the funniest of the REEs is samarium. It retains magnetism to the highest temperature of any element. It is used in missile or fighter jet nose cones (sorry, can’t remember which) for this reason. Oh well, fighter jets are obsolete anyway.
‘Some currently operating Chinese sites have poisoned their local environments.’
—
‘China has long had a serious waste problem, and as usual went into overdrive to fix it, and managed to make it worse. It has massively overbuilt its domestic incinerator capacity, which has caused enormous problems for its recycling industry, while creating a parallel problem with creating giant amounts of toxic bottom and flue gas (its basic physics, incineration only reduces waste by the carbon that goes up the chimney, everything else is converted to ash).
When you overbuild incinerator capacity you create a specific air pollution problem, because incinerators operating at lower than design temperatures (due to a lack of sufficient calorific intake), either have to turn a blind eye to the pollution or pump fuel into the burner.
Guess what a typical private sector operator (and all incinerators in China are run by private operators) will do. So, inevitably, China now has yet another air pollution source.’
‘all incinerators in China are run by private operators’
—
‘Xi makes an explicit mention of “lying flat,” an increasingly popular life philosophy of Chinese youth who want to escape the rat race. “[A] happy life is earned through hard work, while common prosperity is created through wisdom and diligence,” Xi said.
“[We] need to prevent [a] rigidity of social class, smooth the path towards climbing up the social ladder, create more opportunities for people to get wealthy, and hence form an environment where everyone can participate in its development, avoiding ‘involution’, and ‘lying flat’,” he wrote.’
[Cato here is utterly confused as is so often the case, their ‘free market’ economic ‘libertarian’ ideology is as deadening to the the senses and sensibilities as is a devout ‘communist-internationalist’ ideology]
—
China is a nightmare but too many people have gotten rich and, despite the 20 percent youth unemployment it is still well on its way ‘up’ – state-private / private-state technical and military prowess are seemingly unstoppable at this moment in time and for the forseeable future and enough Chinese are enjoying the ride – which is its own ‘rat race’ for sure, but hey, it’s fun while it lasts…’
Needless to say, there is a shit ton of international – including western – investment in China.
Also, flat out hatred of everything USian drives much China love sans any nuance whatsoever.
I believe some commenters responding to one of Sean Paul Kelley’s excessively romantic China pieces mentioned how bad the aiir is in parts of Xinjiang or Shijiazhuang or other places.
—
‘create more opportunities for people to get wealthy’
Remember when Bill Gates told everyone in the US to ‘get wealthy to save the world’ or some loony thing.
—
I still want to know why all the important people – including Xi and other older more vulnerable members of the Chinese state-corporate apparatus aren’t wearing masks while everyone else is. Fascinating!:
For his part, Sagaar misses the point entirely when he says ‘of course they’re masked because of China’s silly zero-covid policy’ – but the point is that whatever one thinks of a zero-covid policy in fact the most important and powerful members – many older including Xi himself – of the public-facing Chinese apparatus aren’t themselves wearing masks while everyone else is.
We’ve got our rare earths or not.
Got earthquakes for sure along with frivolity.
Got an urge, a yearning and a longing for better days and ways
Got to let it go . . .
Interlude. . .
Who who
Ever since I was a young boy I played the silver ball/from Soho down to Brighton I must have played them all/but I never saw anything like him in any amusement hall/that deaf dumb blind kid sure plays a mean pinball.
I was a pinball wizard back in the day, and it doesn’t mean shit, not now nor then.
The mago handle was a bestowed nickname in the tropics, and I use it here and now as a matter of habit and convention.
Just to explain as if explanations were requested or desired.
The open thread format is a vehicle for informing, persuading and entertaining.
That’s what writing’s all about.
Make no excuses or apologies
Dwell in grace. . .
Sunday night ready for bed checked into the comment section at NC where there’s a food fight/cat fight about boomers and their perfidious influence.
Were I a member of the NC club I’d be tempted to respond, but come on. Think about it. We get worked up about whatever and react. Two days later it’s yesterday’s news and doesn’t matter.
Living on the edge and outside the box while defying the norms is beyond generational.
Don’t fence me in. I make no excuses, no proclamations no attempts at making sense.
Just attempting to be a friend to anyone who needs one, and don’t we all, no matter color, height breadth and width young or old and in between.
The rich, not so much, but what the hell? We’re all on the same boat even if some assholes are trying to row in the wrong direction.
Time to check out and check in with my pillow.
Lights out . . .
Picture a Roman Galley ship. It contained the Captain and officers, the soldiers being rowed and sailed to wherever, and the galley slaves. They were all in the same boat, but they were not in it together. They did not all share the same interest. Especially not the galley slaves.
One wonders whether a boatload of galley slaves all decided to row a galley ship onto the rocks in order to sink it and “kill all of Them along with ourselves.”
@ different clue,
But the Captain controlled the rudder, And if the galley slaves had refused to row, they would have been feed to the sharks by the soldiers.
That’s a good point. The only way the galley slaves could overcome the captain’s control of the rudder would be for all the galley slaves on one side to row forwards and all the galley slaves on the other side to row backwards, spinning the ship in circles despite the captain’s rudder. That would only work if an enemy ship could reach the galley-slave-sabotage ship and sink it faster than the Captain could have all the galley slaves killed to stop the rowing.
Here is a fascinating and uplifting Reddit thread showing purported-to-be-true methods people have for getting others to behave better by behaving better themselves.
” What’s an actual psychological “cheat code” you use in social situations that works almost every time? ”
The above link is a scientific explination of the claim that the Russians built a successful nuclear powered cruise missle.
Even after, or especially after, watching this video I find the Russian claim that they built such a device flat out prepostorous.
Such a device would melt down even before it could be launched. This is stupidity beyond belief. Yet all kinds of normally sensible people are taking this claim at face value. This despite the fact that there is so much to point to it being a joke-
Just to start off every video of this missle clearly shows the launch of a conventional solid fuel rocket. So that is clearly not evidence of anything at all. But why show that other than to discredit the claim?
The real mystery here is why did the Russian Government think it neccessary to make a false claim to have developed something that they clearly have not developed?
OH wait!! I get it. The Russians are implying that they have a secret weapon that can reach any where in the west, which can not be stopped, which will destroy any target.
Golly, gee, I wonder what they could be ensinuating?
Are the Russians as delusional as their enemies?
” A healthy 47-year old New Jersey man was found dead after eating a hamburger at a barbecue. Cause of death was ruled “sudden unexplained death,” after an autopsy was inconclusive. He was later confirmed as the first documented fatality from alpha-gal syndrome, a meat allergy triggered by tick bites. ” https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1owv3lo/a_healthy_47year_old_new_jersey_man_was_found/
As global warming helps the Lone Star Tick spread north and west all over America ( and then up into Canada too, I suppose), America may well become a Vegan Nation.
Cows all over America be like . . ” All Hail the Lone Star Tick!”
Here, from CringeTikToks, is a video of some kind of Trump regime spokes-clone explaining to us all about Trump, the List, etc. Its really kind of funny.
NGG
So the administration /Donald Trump does not want to shift funds for SNAP,
Well they decided to pay the military and ICE during the shutdown.
And lest we forget they recently found 40 Billion — yes – Billion to send to Argentina.
mago
Don’t forget the private jets. Not just one, but two.
Priorities, you know.
KT Chong
So lately I have been reading a lot about rare earths. My conclusion: the U.S. will NOT be able to completely overcome China’s chokehold on rare earths or become completely self-sufficient in rare earths — not in 5, 10, 20, 30 years or even longer. The U.S. will always have to rely on China for rare earths — specifically, heavy rare earths.
Even if the U.S. makes every move perfectly, maybe in about a decade it will be able to scrape together self-sufficiency in LIGHT rare earth elements (LREEs). LREEs — neodymium, cerium, lanthanum, etc. — are not actually rare. They are scattered everywhere: Mountain Pass in California (bastnäsite), monazite sands, deposits across the world. LREEs are no big deal.
HEAVY rare earths elements (HREEs) — dysprosium, terbium, yttrium, gadolinium — are actually RARE rare earths. They are geochemically scarce and tend to concentrate in ion-adsorption clays that are relatively easy and cheap to leach and process. The bulk of these ionic-clay HREE deposits are in southern China and neighboring Southeast Asia (notably Myanmar and parts of Vietnam) — a geological and geopolitical belt China effectively controls.
Australia has a sliver of HREEs, but mostly as hard-rock xenotime, which is more difficult and expensive to mine and process. Australian output has been small and almost all of its HREEs still flow to China for downstream processing. The only exceptions: in May 2025, Lynas mines started shipping dysprosium and terbium oxides from Australia to Malaysia for processing. Then, in October 2025, it fell under Beijing’s new export and regulatory controls — because the Malaysian plant still uses Chinese machines and chemicals.
Greenland contains HREEs too (e.g., Kvanefjeld), but they are locked in hard-rock eudialyte/steenstrupine that requires brutal, costly processing and has big political/environmental hurdles. Compared with southern China, Greenland’s reserves are small and operations are slow to come online.
Bottom line: those three regions (southern China/SE Asia, small Australian hard-rock pockets, and Greenland) are where HREE mining for now and the foreseeable future is feasible. The U.S. has virtually no HREE deposits of consequence. HREE productions are not something the U.S. can “mobilize” or “warp-speed” out of in a crisis — not in wartime timescales.
KT Chong
For reference, heavy rare earth (HREE) uses:
• Dysprosium + Terbium: Improve high-temperature magnetic stability — critical for jet engines, guided-missile actuators, and electric motors in F-35s, drones, and naval propulsion systems.
• Yttrium: Used in targeting optics, phosphors, sensors, and laser rangefinders.
• Gadolinium: A neutron absorber — key material for nuclear reactors and sonar systems.
China’s southern ionic clay deposits account for roughly 80–90% of the world’s economically viable HREE resources due to unique geology, and about 99% of global HREE production and supply due to exclusive separation and refining technology. China is roughly 20–30 years ahead of everyone else in industrial-scale HREE separation and processing, and Beijing is not about to share that technology.
HREEs must be refined to ultra-high purity level — 99.999% or better (“five nines” or 5N+) for high-performance magnets, lasers, and avionics. A single decimal shortfall — 99.998% instead of 99.999% — degrades coercivity and heat resistance, rendering the material unfit for F-35 motors or missile gyros. Only China possesses that level of industrial-scale purification know-how — and China ain’t sharing.
It makes absolutely no sense for China to keep selling HREEs to the United States. It’s like handing your adversary the gun and the bullets he’ll use to shoot you later. If China and the U.S. ever go to war, Beijing’s first move will be to cut off all HREE exports to the U.S. and its allies. The American stockpile would last maybe 6–12 months — 18 at most if old components and magnets are stripped for recycling. After that? Game over. China can just wait and be patient.
KT Chong
I haven’t even seen the U.S. media, analyst, pundit or think tanks start distinguishing between heavy and light rare earth elements. Western outlets keep repeating that tired line — “rare earths aren’t really rare; they are everywhere” — which only applies to LREEs.
Meanwhile, Trump has been signing “rare earth” deals with Australia and others, apparently without realizing it is HREEs, not LREEs, that actually matter. Americans are delusional if they think they can close the HREE gap with China in 5, 10, 20, or even 30 years. The U.S. might eventually match China’s rare earth processing technology, (i.e., “might”,) but there is no way the U.S. will overcome the geological reality.
China truly hit the geological and technological jackpot with HREEs. You could almost say: “God has forsaken America — your God is with the atheist Chinese commies now.”
Actually, just kidding. China isn’t all atheists. It does have Christians, (surprise!) but here is a fun fact: many Christians in China even believe Trump is sent by God — but unlike in the U.S., they see him as God’s Chosen to weaken America, clearing the path for China to rise.
Seriously.
spud
to get production back to the U.S.A., will almost be impossible. america was stripped of its capabilities by a regime loaded with cranks and charlatans from 1993-2001, and still is.
but we have a lot of dollars, SNICKER!
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2019/3/21/viewpoint-china-solidifies-dominance-in-rare-earth-processing
“The U.S. government sold off its entire strategic reserve of rare earths between 1994 and 1998. The agency’s strategic reserve now holds only small amounts of rare earth oxides and dysprosium metal. None are in a form that can be directly utilized by our defense industry. The GAO reported that these materials would need to pass through a Chinese supply chain in order to be utilized.”
NGG
Great info KT Chong.
Ian Welsh
Useful information KT. What that means is they need to find substitutes for the HREs. Don’t say it isn’t possible, because it almost always is.
Of course, cutting research, especially fundamental research, is exactly the wrong way to go about it.
The US’s days as the premier great power are done. It’s that simple. They’ll be lucky to hold control of the Americas, I don’t think they will. They might not even keep control of Mexico and Canada given how badly they’re fumbling the ball.
Jorge
Another part of the REE story: processing any of these ores into ingots requires procedures that throw off a lot of pollution. Some currently operating Chinese sites have poisoned their local environments. I do not believe that Americans will be allowed to set up ore-to-ingot REE processing operations here.
Also, the funniest of the REEs is samarium. It retains magnetism to the highest temperature of any element. It is used in missile or fighter jet nose cones (sorry, can’t remember which) for this reason. Oh well, fighter jets are obsolete anyway.
Dan Kelly
‘Some currently operating Chinese sites have poisoned their local environments.’
—
‘China has long had a serious waste problem, and as usual went into overdrive to fix it, and managed to make it worse. It has massively overbuilt its domestic incinerator capacity, which has caused enormous problems for its recycling industry, while creating a parallel problem with creating giant amounts of toxic bottom and flue gas (its basic physics, incineration only reduces waste by the carbon that goes up the chimney, everything else is converted to ash).
When you overbuild incinerator capacity you create a specific air pollution problem, because incinerators operating at lower than design temperatures (due to a lack of sufficient calorific intake), either have to turn a blind eye to the pollution or pump fuel into the burner.
Guess what a typical private sector operator (and all incinerators in China are run by private operators) will do. So, inevitably, China now has yet another air pollution source.’
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/11/links-11-7-2025.html#comment-4318497
—
‘all incinerators in China are run by private operators’
—
‘Xi makes an explicit mention of “lying flat,” an increasingly popular life philosophy of Chinese youth who want to escape the rat race. “[A] happy life is earned through hard work, while common prosperity is created through wisdom and diligence,” Xi said.
“[We] need to prevent [a] rigidity of social class, smooth the path towards climbing up the social ladder, create more opportunities for people to get wealthy, and hence form an environment where everyone can participate in its development, avoiding ‘involution’, and ‘lying flat’,” he wrote.’
https://qz.com/2075649/lying-flat-is-not-in-xi-jinpings-vision-for-china
—
Xi Isn’t a Follower of Hayek, But He Should Be
https://www.cato.org/blog/xi-isnt-follower-hayek-he-should-be
[Cato here is utterly confused as is so often the case, their ‘free market’ economic ‘libertarian’ ideology is as deadening to the the senses and sensibilities as is a devout ‘communist-internationalist’ ideology]
—
China is a nightmare but too many people have gotten rich and, despite the 20 percent youth unemployment it is still well on its way ‘up’ – state-private / private-state technical and military prowess are seemingly unstoppable at this moment in time and for the forseeable future and enough Chinese are enjoying the ride – which is its own ‘rat race’ for sure, but hey, it’s fun while it lasts…’
Needless to say, there is a shit ton of international – including western – investment in China.
Also, flat out hatred of everything USian drives much China love sans any nuance whatsoever.
I believe some commenters responding to one of Sean Paul Kelley’s excessively romantic China pieces mentioned how bad the aiir is in parts of Xinjiang or Shijiazhuang or other places.
—
‘create more opportunities for people to get wealthy’
Remember when Bill Gates told everyone in the US to ‘get wealthy to save the world’ or some loony thing.
—
I still want to know why all the important people – including Xi and other older more vulnerable members of the Chinese state-corporate apparatus aren’t wearing masks while everyone else is. Fascinating!:
https://inv.nadeko.net/EwrRpAh8vVQ?t=41
For his part, Sagaar misses the point entirely when he says ‘of course they’re masked because of China’s silly zero-covid policy’ – but the point is that whatever one thinks of a zero-covid policy in fact the most important and powerful members – many older including Xi himself – of the public-facing Chinese apparatus aren’t themselves wearing masks while everyone else is.
mago
We’ve got our rare earths or not.
Got earthquakes for sure along with frivolity.
Got an urge, a yearning and a longing for better days and ways
Got to let it go . . .
Interlude. . .
Who who
Ever since I was a young boy I played the silver ball/from Soho down to Brighton I must have played them all/but I never saw anything like him in any amusement hall/that deaf dumb blind kid sure plays a mean pinball.
I was a pinball wizard back in the day, and it doesn’t mean shit, not now nor then.
The mago handle was a bestowed nickname in the tropics, and I use it here and now as a matter of habit and convention.
Just to explain as if explanations were requested or desired.
The open thread format is a vehicle for informing, persuading and entertaining.
That’s what writing’s all about.
Make no excuses or apologies
Dwell in grace. . .
mago
Sunday night ready for bed checked into the comment section at NC where there’s a food fight/cat fight about boomers and their perfidious influence.
Were I a member of the NC club I’d be tempted to respond, but come on. Think about it. We get worked up about whatever and react. Two days later it’s yesterday’s news and doesn’t matter.
Living on the edge and outside the box while defying the norms is beyond generational.
Don’t fence me in. I make no excuses, no proclamations no attempts at making sense.
Just attempting to be a friend to anyone who needs one, and don’t we all, no matter color, height breadth and width young or old and in between.
The rich, not so much, but what the hell? We’re all on the same boat even if some assholes are trying to row in the wrong direction.
Time to check out and check in with my pillow.
Lights out . . .
different clue
Picture a Roman Galley ship. It contained the Captain and officers, the soldiers being rowed and sailed to wherever, and the galley slaves. They were all in the same boat, but they were not in it together. They did not all share the same interest. Especially not the galley slaves.
One wonders whether a boatload of galley slaves all decided to row a galley ship onto the rocks in order to sink it and “kill all of Them along with ourselves.”
Curt Kastens
@ different clue,
But the Captain controlled the rudder, And if the galley slaves had refused to row, they would have been feed to the sharks by the soldiers.
Curt Kastens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7-DQv9fdDo
10 US cities that will soon have Tehran sized water problems.
different clue
@Curt Kastens,
That’s a good point. The only way the galley slaves could overcome the captain’s control of the rudder would be for all the galley slaves on one side to row forwards and all the galley slaves on the other side to row backwards, spinning the ship in circles despite the captain’s rudder. That would only work if an enemy ship could reach the galley-slave-sabotage ship and sink it faster than the Captain could have all the galley slaves killed to stop the rowing.
different clue
Here is a fascinating and uplifting Reddit thread showing purported-to-be-true methods people have for getting others to behave better by behaving better themselves.
” What’s an actual psychological “cheat code” you use in social situations that works almost every time? ”
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ou93vt/whats_an_actual_psychological_cheat_code_you_use/
mago
Gracias a Dios that we’re no longer galley slaves.
Wait. Did I just say that?!
Curt Kastens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRZmpiIfttE
The above link is a scientific explination of the claim that the Russians built a successful nuclear powered cruise missle.
Even after, or especially after, watching this video I find the Russian claim that they built such a device flat out prepostorous.
Such a device would melt down even before it could be launched. This is stupidity beyond belief. Yet all kinds of normally sensible people are taking this claim at face value. This despite the fact that there is so much to point to it being a joke-
Just to start off every video of this missle clearly shows the launch of a conventional solid fuel rocket. So that is clearly not evidence of anything at all. But why show that other than to discredit the claim?
The real mystery here is why did the Russian Government think it neccessary to make a false claim to have developed something that they clearly have not developed?
Curt Kastens
sorry for the misspelling, I meant pisstorious.
Curt Kastens
OH wait!! I get it. The Russians are implying that they have a secret weapon that can reach any where in the west, which can not be stopped, which will destroy any target.
Golly, gee, I wonder what they could be ensinuating?
Are the Russians as delusional as their enemies?
different clue
Whoops! Ooops! Uh Oh . . . . .
” A healthy 47-year old New Jersey man was found dead after eating a hamburger at a barbecue. Cause of death was ruled “sudden unexplained death,” after an autopsy was inconclusive. He was later confirmed as the first documented fatality from alpha-gal syndrome, a meat allergy triggered by tick bites. ”
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1owv3lo/a_healthy_47year_old_new_jersey_man_was_found/
As global warming helps the Lone Star Tick spread north and west all over America ( and then up into Canada too, I suppose), America may well become a Vegan Nation.
Cows all over America be like . . ” All Hail the Lone Star Tick!”
different clue
Here, from CringeTikToks, is a video of some kind of Trump regime spokes-clone explaining to us all about Trump, the List, etc. Its really kind of funny.
” Glad that’s all cleared up! ”
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/comments/1owzxl1/glad_thats_all_cleared_up/