If the silver market is manipulated, why?
Governments could afford any priced silver.
Governments cannot afford to have no silver because that would threaten national security.
The United States Air Force in Summer 2024 acknowledged in Aether Journal that:
Both the United States and China seek to build and deploy significant numbers of space assets, most of which are mineral intensive. The mineral compositions of three important space assets– satellites, direct-ascent anti satellite weapons, and rocket