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US Ban on Xinjiang cotton is likely reducing Western artillery shell production (johnsonwkchoi.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

I made this second comment when I dove into the article, and I'm not sure what the adjective is when they say "it". Maybe they meant to suggest that because China can't sell its cotton to the United States, that the United States must import more cotton from abroad, which means the military industrial complex can't take as much cotton from those places as well.

It said there are 80 other countries that export cotton. So maybe the clothing industry in the United States had to import more cotton from those sources... And those sources raised prices or something, may be leading to military industrial partners choosing not to buy as much cotton, therefore reducing how much cotton they had.

But I'm just taking a guess because that was kind of a weird grammar thing they did there.