While Canadians are focussed on hating Trump, China has pretty much taken control of everything that matters

First, please watch this 5 minute video from a Parliamentary National Defence Committee from march 23rd, 2026

We became aware of this questioning by an Instagram reel you can watch here, where the well known commenter adds his own perspective to the issue. In it, he makes claims about the importance of Antimony as a strategic material.

So we asked Grok to vet those claims, as they are of real importance.

Yes, the claims in the Instagram reel about antimony’s military value are largely true and well-supported by government, industry, and technical sources. Antimony is officially listed as a critical mineral for national security in both the US and Canada due to its role in defense applications.

usitc.gov

Accurate claims from the clip:

Hardening lead for bullets and ammunition: Yes. Antimony is alloyed with lead (typically 1–3% or more) to make it harder, stronger, and better-performing. This has been standard for decades in bullet cores, shot, and projectiles. It improves durability and reduces deformation.

epa.gov

Ammunition primers:

Very important. Antimony trisulfide is a key ingredient in many conventional small-arms and artillery primers (the explosive cap that ignites the propellant). One US Army-related statement put it bluntly: “Without antimony trisulfide, you can’t make primers. And without primers, you can’t make bullets.” The US has not produced this specific form domestically since the 1960s and has relied heavily on imports.

reuters.com

Explosives, flares, tracer ammunition, and formulations:

Yes. Antimony compounds appear in explosive mixes, tracers, flares, and some ordnance.

Night vision goggles, infrared sensors, and related optics: Yes. Antimony is used in infrared detectors, semiconductors for night-vision devices, and precision optics/laser sighting systems.

thestlouisgroup.com

Broader military uses (armor-piercing projectiles, flame retardants in military clothing/equipment, communication gear, etc.):

These are documented, though some (like nuclear weapons or tritium production) are more specialized or historical.

In short: Antimony is not optional hype — it is a real strategic material for modern munitions and certain high-tech defense systems. Demand spikes during conflicts because of ammunition production. Important nuance on “necessary for bullets”: It is widely used and highly preferred for performance reasons (harder bullets, reliable primers), but it is not strictly irreplaceable in every single bullet ever made.
Alternatives and lead-free primers exist (some military and commercial ammo already uses them), but they often involve trade-offs in cost, performance, reliability (especially in extreme conditions), or environmental compliance.
For high-volume military production (small arms + artillery shells), antimony remains a key input, and supply disruptions (like China’s export restrictions) create real bottlenecks. The Pentagon has been actively seeking domestic sources precisely because of this vulnerability.

Context on the Beaver Brook mine:

The clip is correct that Canada’s only significant antimony mine (Beaver Brook in Newfoundland) is owned by China Minmetals (a state-owned enterprise) and has been idled/shuttered in recent years. This fits the broader pattern of Western supply concerns for critical minerals.

Bottom line:

The guy in the reel is not exaggerating the military importance of antimony. It really is a behind-the-scenes enabler for reliable ammunition and certain advanced defense tech. The strategic risk comes from heavy reliance on China (which dominates global production and has imposed export controls), making domestic or allied sources like a revived Beaver Brook mine geopolitically relevant.If you want, I can help refine a title or caption for your clip that sticks to the verified facts (e.g., emphasizing primers, bullet hardening, and night vision/IR roles while noting it’s a listed critical mineral). Or if you have more specific claims from the reel you want double-checked, paste them here.

IF you watched the clip and are aware of Canadian recent history about Chinese agents within the Canadian government up to and including a large number of MPs, you may have additional questions about the participants in this Q&A. This is not a minor aside. Parliament in Canada was held up for months with questions about exactly which of the ELEVEN or MORE actual members of Parliament are working for the Communist Chinese.

One last point about active measures.

Repeatedly we have stated that the immense campaign of focused hatred against President Donald Trump is an active measure by State media, with particular emphasis on CBC. This is a perfect exemplar of Orwell’s “Two Minutes of Hate” which was written about multiple times in his novel, 1984. Also it is a perfect exemplar of Yuri Bezmenov’s description of an “Active Measure” as he explained in his 1984 interview with CBC before the CBC itself became an example of one. Better put, a factory for them.

This short excerpt concludes with the former KBB officer explaining that once a population is demoralized you could take them by the hand and show them the concentration camps, the gulags etc. and they still will refuse to believe what is actually taking place.

It is my experience with Canadians that this is exactly where we are at. You can show proof that Trump is not guilty of the accusations made by various leftist media in Canada and the USA (and frankly, Germany and France and everywhere else undergoing a communist revolution) one point at a time and either they explode at you for defending him, accuse you of loving him irrationally without asking once what your objections may or may not be, and often resort to circling back to the first point they made which had already been debunked to their satisfaction earlier in the discussion.

Targets of Active Measures seldom submit to reason. It is about emotional engineering the target way beyond the extent to which art affects an audience emotionally. ‘Super villains’ are created and maintained by active measures until the state has no more use for them as super villains.

Those who read these words and are old enough to remember, will recognize this pattern with Nixon, Raegan, both President Bushes and any potentially counter-revolutionary president of the US and also Harper in Canada. As soon as the left has a new target, the last one suddenly was really not that bad cause ‘the current one is the worst ever and must be destroyed by any means possible.’

This resulted in a number of attempts to shoot president trump that the public is aware of. Trump of course, manages to play this to his advantage and amplify the kind of messaging the left uses. He becomes his own caricature.

Clearly it must be working for him as he got elected three times and has taken office as president twice. Previous presidents attempted to mitigate or argue against false accusations. Which Soviet era information warfare techniques knew was suicidal.

Nixon Derangement Syndrome was cacophonous and hysterical. Popular communist narrative TV shows like All in the Family, popular writing by people like Hunter S Thompson created active measures against Nixon with at least the same ferocity we see today against Trump. Same for the Bushes etc. (How do you pluralize people named bush?) Anyone remember Cindy Sheehan?

I wrote more than I wanted to about this component of this post. But it is included because the 2 minutes of hate, the active measures against President Donald Trump is for many reasons, all of which are because he is an effective threat to the near World Wide communist revolution taking place.

For Canadians, it’s a near perfect distraction from the fact that Canada is, while not the 51st state of the United States, rapidly becoming the 23rd province of China. And very likely a strategic threat to the United States. And that explains a lot.