Everyone’s talking about the rare earth crisis. Almost no one’s talking about the iron crisis hiding inside it.
The high-performance permanent magnets inside fighter jets, missiles, submarines, and radar systems all have a silent dependency: high purity iron (>99.95% Fe).
Iron is supposed to be the safe bet — the thing you never run out of. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: nearly 90% of the world’s supply of high purity iron for rare earth magnets comes from China. And the United States doesn’t produce ANY high purity iron domestically. In a defense context, that’s not just a supply chain issue — it’s a strategic vulnerability.
Common ≠ secure.
Cheap ≠ abundant.
Stable ≠ risk-free.
The real choke point might not be the rarest metal in your arsenal — it might be the one you’ve been ignoring.
Watch this and see the risk hiding in plain sight.
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