Comments by "David Himmelsbach" (@davidhimmelsbach557) on "Russia Is on the Brink – Will Washington Step In or Let Putin Fall?" video.

  1. @ Didn't Lao try and kill Indiana Jones?
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  2. You're mostly right. The kicker with rare earth minerals is that Red China has a MONOPOLY on their processing. YES! Red China is importing the unrefined ores from all over creation so as to convert them into workable metals/ elements. EG Vietnam is a major player -- and ALL of its rare earths head straight north to Red China. (!) Unlike ANY other metals, rare earths are a nightmare to isolate from each other. Indeed, they were so difficult that they were only isolated and named in the late 1800s -- in Sweden -- hence all of their Swedish and European names. The CCP has managed to keep secret -- even from the Americans and Swedes -- how they are currently processing them. Lastly, Red China is so intensely exploiting their own deposits (Inner Mongolia) that most calculations show them running dry in only ten-years. [ Commercially, RE are never purified like copper, silver, gold, iron - one must settle for a blend.] (We're talking about the easy stuff. BTW, their mines would never pass any Western government standard.)
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  3. You must never forget oil flow CONSTIPATION. Siberian oil is warm underground, but does not stay that way when it finally comes out. Should the flow stop -- FREEZE -- Putin is screwed. The industry statistics are that the well is lost -- forever. Further, everywhere the oil stops, it's a nightmare to unfreeze it and get it to flow. It's so difficult that one must wait for Summer -- and STILL use extreme methods to get things flow. Putin will never be able to pull it off. BTW, those destroyed refineries -- they do require Western tech. Even the Chinese would have to start from a dead stop.
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  4. What do you mean? Trump has flatly said that he's not willing to be Europe's Big Daddy. Trust him on that.
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