Sooly⚡️سولي 🇱🇧🇧🇪🇦🇪🇦🇴 on Nostr: The West can print defence budgets. It cannot print refineries, machine tools, ...

The West can print defence budgets. It cannot print refineries, machine tools, skilled workers, magnets or decades of accumulated industrial knowledge.

Financialisation created the illusion that money could replace production. China now controls the bottlenecks exposing that fraud.

It may restrain war, but only if declining empires accept material limits. History suggests they often choose escalation instead.

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How China's dominance of critical minerals and supply chains quietly limits the West's ability to rearm—and its appetite for war.
https://felixabt.substack.com/p/chinas-chokehold-on-western-weaponsand