Natalie Winters

that that would give them a significant upper hand.

And we've essentially seen that play out, right?

That's what we're seeing right now.

But in those four years, that was when we saw it was the China rare earth group.

So they basically consolidated all of their three or four largest state owned or state directly or indirectly, they're all basically directly, but rare earth companies into one mega company that basically bought up

everything they could from Latin America and Europe and Africa, sort of the Belt and Road approach with these strategic investments.

But they really bundled all of this stuff into one kind of monolithic group that just went and rolled really, really, really hard on shoring up all the rare earth stuff.

And like we were saying, this is what they've been doing.

This is what the new Silk Road is about.

When I was in Asia, I went to Laos.

And I mean, it's Chinese writing.

Everywhere.

Every single thing that's being built there is owned by China.

All of the materials, the people that they're importing there, places where there's no development and no running water, they have the most high-tech capabilities to extract this stuff.

And it's all Chinese.

I saw no American development.

I mean, when you see it in person, the scope of it, it's with a nation-ending jaw drop.

It's truly daunting.

Yeah, I mean, it's communists seizing the means of production and getting us to continue to outshore and offshore all of our manufacturing capabilities.

And to another point, we'll link it back to my other story about this idea of just, you know, trying to humiliate the United States on the world stage, even to the point where they had Secretary of War Hegseth meeting with someone who is four or five steps below him in the chain of command and