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by kwere 1138 days ago
setting up a whole industrial value chain from mine to manufacturing & servicing is not guaranteed to succeed in any shape or form, "forcing it" has historically only been pet projects for the hegemons of the time, and a lot still failed, like Soviet computing industry and now (probably) the PRC chip manufacturing (sudsidized with at least like 120 billion$)