Arrogance of Washington clowns

The lesson the USA has not admitted so far is that it has fallen into its own trap that it laid for China. The USA had for all intents and purpose tailored its foreign policies towards taking down countries that it deems a threat to its superpower status. China is the current priority for the USA as a peer competitor in all areas.

But the USA forgot one thing. It is not at all prepared to do what it wanted to do, as taking down China is different from taking down Japan or Germany. One has cornered all the resources necessary to engage in a conflict that cannot be avoided while the other just ignored all the need to know its enemy's strength, arrogantly thinking that confronting China is a piece of cake.

Making matters worse was pushing Russia into the orbit of China that makes the problem of tackling China even harder. Two against one is a different kettle of fish for the USA to comprehend. That is why trying to split the two is also on the agenda of the USA and the Europeans.

China now controls rare earth resources, the one fundamental ingredient necessary for all weapons needed for war - airplanes, submarines, aircraft carriers, drones and missiles. Trying to make up for its rare earth scarcity is a tad too late for the USA.

It is actually a misnomer to say that rare earth minerals are rare. It is very common cheap rock found all over the world. It is the refining logistics that is the defining domination of who controls rare earth and China is undoubtedly the dominant player with almost 90% refining facilities.

As I like to say, China thinks long term and China works its way to make sure it gets to control what is important.


Anonymous