July 4 (Reuters) - China has announced export restrictions on some gallium and germanium products, metals used in computer chips and other products, citing national security interests.

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    2 years ago

    … you’re supposed to cut access to those shortly before the war, to cause maximum headaches. If there’s a war actually soon, then they picked the dumbest timing they possibly could. The west is in a state of partially mobilized war production, in an effort to supply Ukraine.

    And US soldiers are not involved in any foreign wars for the first time in awhile. That lowers our threshold for hitting an America-fuck-yea moment significantly.

    Primary Reference: https://youtu.be/LasrD6SZkZk

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      And US soldiers are not involved in any foreign wars for the first time in awhile.

      Yep, they’ve been using ukrainians as cannon fodder recently.