Quote from: SuperBowl1984 on May 27, 2020, 10:28:37 AM

It’s the trump who decide what’s the number for your perusal, when trump said it number one it must be number one! When trump say it’s obama incompetence it’s the Obama’s fault, when trump said it’s the white people it must be the white people! When trump farting hard you all must smell it with wide open arm welcoming it! When trump said mangina you all said vagina. When trump said 5% you all say 5%! No question ask!

US + Trump = super power + megalomania = industry defense + economist at war = instability is always there by American design.

I not only see this from conspiracy theories but rather see this from the perspective of national interests. America needs a big budget to support the pentagon, the NSA, the CIA which has been getting funding from the "defense industry". Therefore the war must not disappear so that the demand for weapons remains high and the American arms industry continues to exist. Trump has calculated the benefits of war for America. American tactics have always maintained the war zone's status quo to keep its wares selling.

In 2018, the United States Secretary of Defense stated that "America is no longer focused on fighting terrorism. America is focusing on the growing threat of China and Russia". Trump disagreed with Mattis Mad Dog and then John Bolton who was replaced by Mark Esper and O Brien. Trump needs a war but a military war costs a lot of money. Then the less confrontational strategy is chosen, which is compartments China. China will be compartmentalized on four sides. North by Japan, the Peninsula is guarded by South Korea, Taiwan, and most recently the Southeast Asia region where the South China Sea is the region that is the largest concentration of China in its grand plan for controlling rare minerals. America has also begun to add India as a proxy for pressure on China.

This rare earth metal production has been monopolized by China and the majority of its resources are in southeast Asia. Trump is late in realizing China's move to energy self-sufficiency by the hegemony of the battery industry. The South China Sea is a vital location for the sustainability of China's food security in the future. So to put the brakes on China, America must ensure the status quo in the region. The Philippines has already given a green signal to the American military presence. Australia and America are building military bases in Papua New Guinea.

As the charm of crude oil decreases, the conflict will shift to the area of renewable energy sources and which is the backyard of the challengers of superpower. What would happen to the United States defense industry without rare earth metals.