From Stealth Jets To Nuclear Reactors l US Depends On Arch-rivals Russia & China For Raw Materials

As the US ramps up rhetoric against Russia and China, the Biden administration finds itself in a tough spot. Reports suggest that the US depends on raw materials from China and Russia for many of its programs. As per reports, US firms depend on Russian-origin High Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU) for building small nuclear reactors for power generation. HALEU is enriched to up to 20%, rather than around 5% for the uranium that powers most nuclear plants.
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0:00 - INTRODUCTION
0:39 - WHY US NEEDS RUSSIAN FIRMS
1:43 - WILL RUSSIA & CHINA TAKE THE WIND OUT OF US’ FIGHTER JETS?
2:38 - RARE EARTH METALS GIVE CHINA THE EDGE
3:32 - US’ HISTORY OF DEPENDENCE ON ADVERSARIES

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[joee.scottsr.]

We all depend on each other and this is why I can't understand why the different countries of the world can't corporate for the good of all people.

[docholiday]

The problem we have is one of fore sight. Every time a nation in the world creates a war we aren’t ready for it. The reasons are not difficult to understand but our response is. We have the ability to manufacture, stockpile and engineer unlike any nation in the world but we tie ourselves in knots over social issues without a thought of strategic concerns. We have allowed our strategic heavy industries languish while other nations are going full bore forward. We find ourselves like Britain before World War II: worldwide concerns but enough resources to defend them. We haven’t had a coherent foreign policy since 1992 and our military policies are a mess. Our navy builds gigantic carriers and our rivals build thousands of missiles. Our jets are fast and stealthy but their range requires tankers that are neither fast or stealthy. We have dedicated service members who aren’t paid a living wage if they have a family. We as a nation are running a credit card government with no end and no responsibility in sight. I can’t tell what our national strategy is let alone our global strategy. We are going on 30 years of no decernable strategy. We need to rebuild our industrial base in steel, oil, rare earth elements, as well as ship building, container ship fleet, fleet train and long range aircraft. China wants Taiwan and can seize eastern Russia at its convenience after that. We have to get our house in order and fast. The coming war won’t be like WWII. The Atlantic and Pacific aren’t barriers anymore. We need to look at this coldly, rationally and realistically. China and its axis are existential threats to our messy way of life.

[pjhgerlach]

Rare earth metals can also be found in Sweden, Finland, Greece and Spain. If they can be mined efficiently Europe could become less depended on China.

[Bikeaddict]

Seems like a non story, get your rare earth magnets from Amazon 😂

[billd]

The editing in this video is unusually bad. That said, yes, he US is *currently* dependent on resources from both China and Russia, but that can change if those countries wish it to. As always, be careful what you wish for. They need the US as much as the US needs them. That why this whole [war] situation is so ridiculous. Putin went and started something that Russia can’t possibly finish.

[untermench]

The US does not desperately need Russia and China for exotic metals, it's just that they are a cheaper source of the same materials because energy and labor costs are less in Russia and China.

[MrOner]

"a day without hypocrisy is a day wasted for our people" - US (United Sanctions)

[thelcbond]

The US obtaining enriched uranium from Russia is really more of a matter of convenience. I wouldn't be surprised if someone who the world trusts more than Russia or China started refining Uranium in the near future. You have to understand that Uranium is everywhere in the western world. The Australians produce a huge amount yellow cake and the USA is actually sitting on top of massive uranium reserves. Just to name two examples. I'm confident that the western world will find a way around this.

[malikhampton]

It's a give-and-take type of situation!

[caseyford]

We don't depend on them and we could move forward with multiple technologies we already have, to make America far better in many ways. We just need leaders who will move forward with it.

[martinmatte]

same as the earlier mentioned Urainium, Samarium and other elements of the side group in the 3rd row of the periodic system are available all over the world. They are usually enclosed in different types of oxides, but it´s about the extraction. It´s dirty, time cosuming and needs a lot of processes, which would make it way more costly in the western world, due higher wages and restrictions. Especially the enviornmental guidelines would make an extraction very difficult. However, if China goes for Vladivostok, instead of Taiwan, noone would care anyways - and i have to say, this is a great opportunity to get back the land of eternal light 😃

[kaliflorida]

Can some one tell me how I can get this beat in the background or what's the name of song 🎵

[EdwardPCampbell]

What is meant by alloy? This is an undefined commodity. Eg: nickel, manganese, chromium, iron is an alloy. Aluminium, zinc and magnesium is an alloy. There are as many alloys of metals as there are ignorant journalists or compilers of poorly informed or researched documentaries. Almost every documentary on YouTube has at least one glaring mistake in the first 3 minutes. My favourite is “thousands of tons of asteroids fell on Earth in the Heavy Bombardment”. Another was, “The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was 100 kilometres wide”.

[lovealways]

bye-done is best consumer president, ever

[darkazurr]

anything that any country depends on russia for, really, should find those from other more friendly countries
it is time to pull out of trade with russia, as it will use those goods as a weapon

[manickn]

The world is connected. It works better that way. Trying to isolate any large state is just plain dumb.

[aardque]

Look, if we didn't have enemies, we wouldn't need to build weapons to defend ourselves, then what would we do with our time.

The other side of it, is that the entire conversation is hypothetical. Because well, put it this way, if it came down to it, we have WAAAY many more washing machines and microwaves to gut.

[TheVolubrjotr]

While all the oil from the Alaskan pipeline is sold to China!!!

[fhnsgdfjfiejd]

I know the US has marked out alot of these raw materials in Australia and other countries for longevity so I doubt that this would be much of an issue.

[ycplum]

There are few if any countries not dependent on materials from other countries since globalization. Often, there are other sources is you are willing to pay a premium.

It should also be noted that Russia and China has the need to sell to the US. They need the revenue to run their government.