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Shipments of the magnets, essential for assembling everything from cars and drones to robots and missiles, have been halted at many Chinese ports while the Chinese government drafts a new regulatory system. Once in place, the new system could permanently prevent supplies from reaching certain companies, including American military contractors.

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  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Nah having trouble believing that Baltics could ever be rules by Russia. No way ruskies ever winning that.

    • 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      11·
      3 hours ago

      Now you have to be a troll. First, Russia ruled the Baltics for several generations. Second, it is the most easily conquered NATO territory in Europe today. Many doubt that NATO would respond and Russia would displace native people (who they will forcibly relocate elsewhere) with Russians who will be moved in to Russify the lands.

        • 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          By your source, they resisted 12 years (mostly due to western aid) and then gave-up.

          “By the early 1950s, the Soviet forces had eradicated most of the Forest Brother resistance. Intelligence gathered by the Soviet spies in the West and MGB infiltrators within the resistance movement, in combination with large-scale Soviet operations in 1952, managed to end the campaigns against them. Many of the remaining Forest Brothers laid down their weapons when offered an amnesty by the Soviet authorities…”