{"id":75862,"date":"2026-08-10T06:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=75862"},"modified":"2026-08-10T06:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:43:01","slug":"don-tzu-the-art-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=75862","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Don Tzu, The Art of War<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No rare earths = no fighter jets = no war.<\/p>\n<p>The US imports ~70% of its rare earths from China.<br \/>China is restricting those very supplies.<br \/>Rare earth stockpiles were already low before the war began.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s not just fighter jets&#8230; the entire US military is dependent on Chinese rare\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gpoymtiYu3\">pic.twitter.com\/gpoymtiYu3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lukas Ekwueme (@ekwufinance) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ekwufinance\/status\/2086483679065317769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>READ HERE:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winterwatch.net\/2026\/08\/don-tzu-the-art-of-war\/#respond\">https:\/\/www.winterwatch.net\/2026\/08\/don-tzu-the-art-of-war\/#respond<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75863,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75862\/revisions\/75863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}