China's Rare Earth Power: US Defense Vulnerability Exposed

You're really talking about the economic asymmetry of how Iran can launch low-cost drones that require Israel to defend with extremely high-cost interceptors. But I want to add another element to this and ask you about your knowledge on this. The the interceptors, which are mostly manufactured by US weapons companies, uh, they rely, of course, uh, very heavily on these so-called rare earths that China has slapped major export restrictions on, including, you know, everything from gallium and dysprosium and neodymium and magnets and guidance and radar systems. And and all of these elements are extremely, uh, highly restricted. Now, there's been a pass on some of those elements until the end of this year, but China could revoke that pass at any time. In addition to selling off, you know, US Treasuries and and whatever else. So China has a lot of cards to play. If the US attacks Iran, wouldn't China say, well, we can't let Iran fall because it's the gateway between the east and the middle and, you know, Africa and Europe and everything? So we're just going to use economic weapons and resource weapons of of restrictions against the United States. And then the ...