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if you guys had a working government they'd already be buying up all the rest-earth from every mining op ever and throw it all into a giant factory.
"Rare Earths" are everywhere, just in trace amounts. Refining them is expensive, well fuck then make it strategic you idiots, if you can afford rockets you can afford refining.
Leaving that "monopoly" (basically processing being cheap due to slave labour) to the chinese was a strategic fuck up.