>>13219676The chips that are getting stuck in anything that has a rocket attached to it aren't coming from those commercial fabs. They're getting made in house by Raytheon or GD or whoever.
My point to the other anon is this: through complete monopoly of the rare earth mining industry, from extraction to refinement, China has grabbed the entire planet's military and advanced manufacturing by the pubes. If you need to make something small and advanced that needs a magnet, everything from control fins to rockets, optics, guidance systems, generators, and motors, you have to buy from China. If you really want to lessen China geopolitical influence, you need to take economic and industrial action, not kinetic. By simply refusing to trade their rare earth elements, China can bring the US to its knees. They've already threatened to do so, and they'll continue to threaten to do so. The US has some of the largest rare earth deposits on the planet and due to ass-backward regulation on nuclear 'waste', we've hamstrung our domestic ability to use these resources and counter China's international economic monopoly. Some mouthbreathers here think the best course of action is to just ash the place, and we win because 'we only got nuked a little bit'.