>>518881387
I saw this coming in 2010. I wasn't even 18 years old reading about Coltan and the DRC then fell down a brief rabbit hole about rare earth and a Chinese push for control over processing it.
Our leaders are dumber than autistic teenagers on basket-weaving forums. This shit was all too predictable and yet nothing was done. Nothing. All the power and riches the world has to offer and not one of the high-powered CEOs or politicians took a moment away from their kid-fucking to think "wait a minute, we're about to lose everything". It'll be alright though, only the plebs will suffer.