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Old frogman, sailor, boatbuilder, novelist and chronic rabble rouser. You can read the first third of my novels, gratis, at my website link just below.

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Will somebody please explain to me how, with the Strait of Hormuz a no-go-zone for the U.S. Navy, and our warships driven out of the Persian Gulf, we can support a USMC amphibious landing on Kharg Isl...

SummaryA military analyst critiques the logistical and strategic impossibility of a proposed U.S. Marine amphibious operation against Kharg Island in Iran, arguing that the geographic distances, Iranian air defenses, lack of naval access to the Persian Gulf, and the sheer scale of the operation make it militarily unfeasible.Mar 21, 20265 tweets♥ 5.8KMatt Bracken@Matt_Bracken48

We can buy Greenland outright by offering direct payments to the relatively few Greenlanders, [57,000 total] granting them U.S. citizenship in the bargain. I wrote a detailed Substack on this last yea...

SummaryThe author proposes the U.S. buy Greenland by offering direct payments ($100,000 each) to its 57,000 Inuit residents and granting them citizenship, arguing Denmark's claim is historical fiction and highlighting Denmark's coercive IUD sterilization campaign against Greenlandic women in the 1960s-70s as evidence of mistreatment. The proposal positions American acquisition as preferable to continued Danish control.Jan 7, 202611 tweets♥ 5.3K