• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    High strength magnets require a non-trivial amount of infrastructure to produce, but mainly they require rare earth elements that china is already restricting the sale of. This seems like a move more to do with the tarrifs than Ukraine though, since as the other commentor pointed out, you can still get all the parts.