“How? If they have the material and nobody else does, how do you break this without invading?”
minerals, not “materials”. The point is to exploit mines in the USA to produce minerals in the USA instead of importing them. It is essentially a (long overdue) middle finger to the Greenies and their minions in the deep state agencies EPA, USGS, NOAA...
That’s only part of the solution. Rare earth minerals are rare indeed.
Declare a national emergency and start drilling where needed immediately. Screw the permits. Drill baby drill. Maga.
Makes sense. BTW, I used “material” because it is more generic, just in case some of the materials we were talking about were not minerals. :)