Americans believe that everything must be expensive to be good...this mentality and playbook is coming back to haunt the Americans

  Good means expensive or expensive means good. This is the mantra of America and the West. Everything from the West and America must be expensive. The days of expensive branded goods to fleece the dumb rich is over. Any thinking person will not splash their hardearned money on cheap but expensive goods just for a label.

For a long time, the Americans and the West priced their items on the assumption that the consumers are buying quality and therefore have to pay the price demanded by the sellers. Japan and South Korea started to prick this bubble with quality but relatively inexpensive goods and products. Then came China, and the high price myth fell flat on the ground. China is producing everything with good quality and a fraction of the price of American and western equivalents.

The most crucial sector that the Americans are now facing the most painful consequences is war and the cost of weaponry. The American doctrine and philosophy and marketing strategy, is to make wars very expensive, make weapons very expensive that only the Americans can pay and fight these expensive wars. For a while it works, and this reinforced the beliefs in the American thinking, in the strategies of American Military Industrial Complex. American war strategy and doctrine are all about power, shock and awe and short wars. Everything will be over in days, maybe in hours.

This strategy works when the enemies are small, poor and weak and technologically inferior, did not have the financial and military resources to match the American war machine. No country can fight the Americans and would be wiped out in a matter of days. The Ukraine and Iran wars have made this strategy looking hollow and misplaced. Once the enemy is able to resist the first few days of all out bombing and attacks, the Americans will run out of weapons and run out of money to replace what they had expended.

The Americans depend on quick wars, shock and awe and victory in days. No need to think about logistics and weapon replacement and resupply. The Iranians have proven that they could fight a war at a fraction of the cost of the Americans. The Houthis make this even more apparent and ludicrous.

The American war strategy and war machine cannot do the job they were designed to do. No more quickies. The two wars, in Ukraine and Iran, are going to bankrupt the Americans. They cannot afford to fight these wars even with the printing of money. Their war industry cannot produce and resupply the American forces with the expensive weapons they need, financially and in the numbers needed when the war is dragged over months and years.

Expensive wars and expensive weapons are now things that the Americans too cannot afford to have. The Americans are losing wars because they cannot afford it, cannot produce enough with limited manufacturing capacity. And the enemies are making it worst by using cheap and affordable weapons and easy to produce and equally effective. In a way, it becomes a war when two sides are throwing money at each other, and see which side will run out of money and weapons first.

Expensive weapons no longer win wars. The doctrine of war has changed. Many countries would have to rethink their weapons wardrobe and think again what they are buying and whether they are useful or relevant in new warfares when expensive does not mean good and will win wars.

Asymmetric war, war of attrition, drones and hypersonic missiles are the new wars against the American strategy of short and shock and awe war. Just trap the American terrorists in a long war they cannot win and drain their resources, weapons, finances and the will to fight. Asymmetric and war of attrition are cheap and economical and can go on and on. American's unending wars will bankrupt America.

Stealing IP says Americans asses running out of excuses in a losing war with China

 SMIC is already making 5 nm chips using DUV machines that China has in abundance, secured over the years. China's progress is making ASML and the USA nervous and paranoid. They can keep claiming that China's progress is nothing extraordinary nor relevant but just costly. Well, we shall see when the shit hits the fan. Action speaks louder than words. China can bring down cost with its abundant cheap energy and talented engineers.

We have already seen that in the field of space exploration, high-speed railways, hypersonic missiles, drones, shipbuilding, renewable energy infrastructures, agriculture and aquaculture progress and energy exploration and innovation both renewal and traditional.

Did anyone care to watch that piece by Statrys', titled 'Now it's the West copying China (but they'll never admit it)? What progress China is making will never be admitted, not until the shit already hits the fan. Then they will try to contain the fallout by sanctioning, tariffing and demonization. By then, it will be too little too late.

Anonymous 

Lithuania and Holland are silly Mickey Mouse

 Lithuania wanted to antagonize China by allowing Taiwan to open a representative office in Vilnius under the name Taiwan. China cuts off ties with Lithuania, refusing to have further engagement to reset ties, and Lithuania's economy took a nosedive. Do you think Lithuania did all this itself? Even the mighty Germans and French do not think it wise to antagonize China, so what does a minnow in EU like Lithuania hope to achieve?

The Netherlands tried to seize a Chinese semiconductor company, Nexperia, which backfired. They seized a nameplate and address instead, with the main manufacturing all located inside China, which were told just to ignore the orders of the Dutch HQ in the Netherlands. Nexperia's owner, Wingtech Technology Company had been on the USA's entity list earlier and the Dutch Government was trying to carry favor with the USA by seizing Nexperia to control vehicle dependence on its semiconductor technology.

The Dutch are going to find out they owe China much more than just the actions taken against China by ASML and Nexperia. These will be repaid with interest when chips can be made beyond the ASMC EUV machines. It is just a matter of time. When China succeeds in making its own EUV machines and flooding the market like everything else, ASML is going to die of old age like Kodak and some ICE vehicle makers, no matter how prestigious they once were.

Anonymous 

The intrinsical and inherent evil of the Anglo-Saxon United States.

 The Anglo-Saxon United States has inherited all the inherent evil of its forebears the evil British Empire. Evil thoughts and executing atrocious wicked deeds like creating wars, instabilities, turmoil and violent orange revolutions are all in the DNA of the Anglo-Saxons5 and the white people.

The United States since its founding in 1776 has never been able to live in peace along side with other countries. It has always been domineering and a hegemon.After establishing its independence it went on a trail of violent aggressions to brutally invade all the remaining self-governing native American states as granted by the British imperial and colonial government. Then from 1840s to 1870s and armed with its new doctrine 'Manifest Destiny of America'  it attacked and invaded Mexico and forced Mexico to cede one million six hundred and sixty-five thousand square kilometres of Mexican lands to USA. This was followed by oveseas invasion of Hawaii, PuertoRico, Guam and the Philippines as well as colonizing all the Pacific Oceanic Island kingdoms in the Pacific Ocean.  It then went on to supplant South American countries with the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. In later years the USA went along with imperial European powers to rob and plunder the wealth and rich resources of the Middle East as well as all the African countries. It continues to do so after the Second World War right up to this present time.

From the 1800s to the 1940s the United States has always worked hand in glove with the European countries to undermine China's sovereignty with extra-territorial rights. It interfered with China's Civil War between the KMT led by Chiang Kai Shek and the CPC led by Mao Tse-Tung. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China on October 1st, 1949, the United States carried on to undermine China's survival by economic and naval blockade hoping to contain China's development and thereby to destroy China.

By their evil minds, evil thinking, evil thoughts and diabolical plots and actions the Anglo-Saxon United States and the White colonial and imperial countrries are not only stoking the deep seated indignation of the Chinese people but also the deep indignation and hatred of the people of Africa, Asia, Middle East, South and Central America for their endless bullies and wanton acts of brutal aggressions.

The United States is now a pauper state surviving at the expense of all countries of the South through deception and subterfuge. It is burdened with over 40 Trillion Dollars debt and yet it claims to help some other countries financially. The financial aid to other  poor countries  is never free for at the end of the day the USA make the countries pay back many times more than the aid given by robbing and plundering these countries natural resources. More over the USA is just paying with the scam petro dollars or toilet tissues with no limits. The United States is cheating the whole world by using the toilet tissue petro dollar as fiat currency. 

The fake American aid is largely used to spend on building USA military bases and it basically serves to protect and maintain USA hegemony. It is not protecting any country it claims it is protecting. It is just to intimidate countries not to oppose USA evil intent of exploitation and neo-colonialism.

Now the felon and sex maniac Trump and his cohort of crooks and scoundrels, thugs and hoodlums in his government claim the right to acquire Greenland for a small token payment of a fee to Denmark. As for Canada, Mexico, Panama and Guatemala the United States has no problem with it as Trump feels America will just acquire these countries for free. Let's hope he does for it will signal the disintegration of the evil United States and the end of the much hated American Empire.

The United States is not only an evil expansionist country that attacks and invades other countries freely but also a thieving country that holds and tightens world financial institutions like banks - the IMF and World Monetary Fund' to always gain illicit profits by raising high interest rates at the expense of the poor countries of the South.

Finally what is the neurotic Anglo-Saxon Americans think they are doing? Day in and day out they think of nothing but creating wars for profit and more wars and instabilities and hostilities around the world to benefit the Pentagon Military Industrial Complex and its elite owners the bankers and business tycoons in all the humongous commercial corporations and conglomerates. The Anglo-Saxon American terrorists just cannot make America great again by creating wars and turmoil everywhere and by attacking and invading other countries.

It is high time for all countries of the world, the BRICS and all countries of the South to unite in solidarity in a united front to take down and destroy the rogue United States before it is able to destroy the whole world.

Southernglory1.

Thursday, 15th October, 2026

Why China control 80 to 90% of rare earths supplies

  It is very easy to blame China on everything, even blaming China for control of rare earths. Is this the result of China being smarter and more strategic in thinking or because the Americans were stupid or too busy starting and fighting wars, wasting manpower and resources to destabilise the world in order to control the world?

There are many factors that brought about this situation not that the Americans were blind or too busy bombing and invading countries and killing people. It is not so simple to say that the Chinaman, the cooks and laundrymen, were much starter than the brainless hillbillies and rednecks and dumb blondes. Of course these are some of the factors that brought about this domineering control of rare earths by China. While the American terrorists were preoccupied with wars, terrorism and genocide, China was trading all over the world and buying up mines for raw material and rare earths. The Americans are so stupid not to know this, and not to do anything about it. Their game plan is to take over the world by force, by military might.

I would just want to add one factor, the Chinese were able to process rare earths cheaper and sell them cheaper to the world. The Americans and the West just cannot compete and got priced out of the rare earth market. The Americans and the West were still thinking they were in the 20th Century when they could control everything and sell everything they want at their exorbitant prices. But China came in and offers everything on the cheap, just as good, equally good or even better at a fraction of the prices the Americans and West have been demanding from the rest of the world.

The EVs is a good example. Without China producing good and technically superior EVs, the Americans and the West would still be bullying the world to buy their obsolete and expensive automobiles, including poor quality EVs. China is telling the world that all goods and services can be had at a fraction of the prices the Americans and the West are demanding.

The Americans and the West cannot process rare earths at the price China is producing and selling to the rest of the world. Without China, the prices of rare earths from American producers would cost a bomb, controlled and monopolised by the Americans and the West, just like data centres, advanced chips, and everything made in America and the West.

The Americans and the West surrendered the rare earth market to China because they just could not compete and unable to control the market. China will do the same to all goods and services to benefit the world world and priced out the Americans and the West. Period.