”As we embraced what was new and glamorous, we outsourced what seemed old and unfashionable… and one day we realised we had outsourced our economic security and our very future.” Marco Rubio, Critical Minerals Ministerial, Washington, 4 februarie 2026 “Supply chains remain brittle and exceptionally concentrated. Asset and commodity prices are persistently depressed, driven downward by forces beyond any individual country’s control.”  J.D. Vance, Critical Minerals Ministerial, Washington, 4