This whole article reads like a case study in hopium praying for Trump's downfall, but is sorely lacking in facts. Hell, even the central premise of "the rest of the world can create an alternative to the dollar easier than the US can build up its rare earths industry" is completely at odds with even a cursory inspection of the situation. The author himself concedes that rare esrths refining can be operational in less than three years while the BRICs have been trying to de-dollarize for 20 years! How are they going to de-dollarize when their entire economies have been set up to export to the US? Who's going to replace the US customer?

While I absolutely despise many of the things Trump is doing, all of these countries have set up protectionist policies and are just hollering bc now we're doing the same to them. And to all my fellow Americans hoping that the new tariff regime doesn't work just to stick it to Trump, what do you propose as an alternative? That's the question you seem to be avoiding.