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World War Microchip, Rare Earth Mineral Issues + Suspicious Fires

Really? no, Really?

CHAPTER

The Importance of Rare Earth Materials in Manufacturing

The world is kind of interdependent on a whole ton of materials. Ukraine was a key supplier of something called NEON, which was a gas used in making actually in some of the equipment that made the chips and Dockerfree machine. And we had to find other sources. China kind of owns most of the rare earth materials. Export control on us would be hard pressed to scramble to make some of those stuff up.

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