These rules might be related

fact check, true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_II
Black Ops II's single-player campaign features two connected storylines, with the first set from 1986 to 1989 during the final years of the First Cold War, and the other set in 2025 during a Second Cold War and rare earths trade dispute[15] between the United States and China.
- A related tangent: Ghost Recon had a plot about Russia invading Georgia in 2008. That game was from 2001.
  
  Yeah but Ghost Recon: Future Soldier has US soldiers protecting its universe's version of Putin from a coup. Its set in 2024.
  It released in 2012.
  Sometimes they get it very wrong.
- you fact checked the fiction
  
  Fiction check.
  
  explodes

That Blops2 summary implies the new cold war began because of something China did.
In this timeline it's 100% the US
- Or the Blops2 summary is American propaganda and purposefully avoids mentioning why China did what they did
  
  call of duty is 100% propaganda
  
  Tbf Russia installed Trump to damage the US, and Russia and China are allies.

Does this mean that 8 year old was right about my mum?
- yes

Dear gods. Without rare earth metals the US could regress technologically. We'd likely revert to cathode ray tubes and other post WW2 tech. That is until fusion is sustainable and then we get fight over energy for some reason. Next thing you know it's October 23, 2077...
- Rare earth metals aren’t even rare though. They are just not found in concentrated form like gold. And metallurgists in the past had a hard time isolating the metals that’s why they called them rare.
  It’s just that China can mine them cheaply since the Chinese government doesn’t care about labor rights and the environment. Europe and Australia has rare earth metal deposits.
  
  Europe and Australia do, but honestly, as a European, I'd rather trade with China than the US right now. Even though both are shit.
  
  The US has deposits too. Some of the ones our military equipment needs most are found in Zinc mines and we let our refinery capability for them lapse in the 1990's. So all we actually need to do is get a refinery built.
  
  And that's why all labour rights should be dropped!
- Some wastelander is gonna find my bottle cap collection and get as excited as a pirate finding a buried chest full of gold dabloons. If they don't immediately go to New Vegas and visit Fisto then I collected them all for nothing
- Luckily I'll be a dead gonk by then.. Wait, wrong universe. But no chance I'll end up as a ghoul.
  
  In the cyberpunk universe the tech exists that we could all still be alive, I mean look at Rogue, she didn't age a day in 57 years.
  But I'm pretty certain I'll be pushing daises by the time the bombs drop
- Ooh I hope tubes come back. I need cheaper and better quality tubes for my guitar amp collection damn it!
- If only we had an ally who needed our oversized military who also had a huge reverse of rare earth elements.
  
  If only they were still an ally after the current shenanigans of the senile president.
- October 23, 2077
  It will be the Black Friday before another Great Depression.
  ....right?
  ....right???

Wait why all countries? What did Canada do?
- Trade the refined products to the US
  
  If they hadn't noticed the rest of the world isn't really looking up to the current USA either.

besides robotic weaponry, we are literally in this timeline
- We have robotic weaponry
  
  i was assuming mech
- Did you forget about drones?
  
  Also remote controlled tracked vehicles and robodogs have been used in ukraine.
  
  Drones are unmanned vehicles
- Yeah, we already have all those things apart from futuristic technology. But the boffins promise it's less than 5 years away now.

Out of rare earth metals? Just start a war with cyber robots! They are built from wood and love.
- A Magic Doll made out of Wood and hate is an alternative

Thd difference is that the president of US is female there, here is just a bitch...
- what the fuck does that even mean
  
  Took me a minute to decipher that too. But looking it up, the US president in the game mentioned above is a woman. So they are saying “in the game the president is a woman, in real life he (Trump) is just a bitch.”
  
  Th[e] difference is that the president of US is female there, here [he] is just a bitch…