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.
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.
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.
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.