Iran: the collapse

But the important thing is that no one is mentioning the Epstein files.

 

and they got rid of Robert Menendez

 

Europe’s response

I’ve seen green shoots

 

this community note is something else

Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you’ve got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks. https://t.co/Et21kHCiAw

— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) March 15, 2026

 

Basically, you should be able to swap the order of terms and it still makes sense.

American-Israelis? No
Americans-Israeli? No

American-Israeli - yes
US-Israeli - yes

 

If I remember correctly, Gingrich is supposed to be a historian. I guess he doesn't remember Project Plowshare. It wasn't that long ago.

 

Apart from the many obvious reasons it is a stupid idea, there is also a huge underestimation of the amount of nukes it would take and the difficulty using said nuclear excavation canal.

Using Newt's parameters, of the width of the Panama Canal and the depth of Suez, you would probably need closer to 500-600 15 kiloton devices, instead of the 'dozen'. You can't use megaton nukes for such a project, since it would create craters that are useless for your purpose (far too wide and deep and displacing huge amounts of material in their creation).

The bigger problem would be the fallout (obviously), the effect on any nearby human settlements and also the fact that your spiffy new canal would be lined with highly radioactive material on both sides.

 

Though it is the kind of idea I understand would appeal to the Trump caliber brain trust: stupid beyond belief and superficially appealing to the imagination.

 

tldr

The weak European mind cannot comprehend awesomeness of US ingenuity! /s

 

Hegseth can have some more catchy phrases now.

I Saw Americans Flagitate.

Veni Vidi Helpme.

 

I can't decide if this really happened or not.

 

Umm, what?

Also, this is really funny:

Just in: Iran's new Supreme Leader seen alive, visiting the same cafe as Netanyahu

Also proving he has 5 fingershttps://t.co/C6i3qeULBJ https://t.co/pRwoC4saHG

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 16, 2026

 

And Mexico paid for it. It was a win-win!


And if you believe that, I have a new canal in the Middle East to sell you.

 

Interesting thread on the Hormus strait. Stonekettle is a Navy vet himself.

stonekettle

1. Tankers can't maneuver in the Strait. They move on a single course at a specific unchanging speed. It takes MILES to stop a tanker. They're lined up like a conveyer belt of those metal ducks in a carnival shooting range. Warships can't maneuver much either, especially when tethered to tanker defense. Their weapons aren't designed to repeal drones, missiles, mines, and high speed maneuvering surface targets all at the same time for very long
2..it's hard enough to escort ONE Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) through the gauntlet, but to make a difference you'd have to get a 100-140 VLCCs through the Strait EVERY SINGLE DAY. Without a single casualty, because just ONE burning tanker, dead in the water, in that channel, and you're done.Unless you've been there, unless you've done it, you just have no ********ing idea of the sheer staggering scope of the problem.But wait, it's even worse than that.
3.Those VLCC's have to onload, that's 2 to 4 MILLION barrels of oil each. They're sitting ducks during this process, tied to a loading terminal next to other tankers, with millions of barrels of highly flammable oil pumping through pipelines from tank farms on shore. Every single bit of that process is massively vulnerable to drone and missile attack.The Gulf is small, Iranian drones can reach every bit of it and they only have to get lucky once.

4.
Again, most of you simply cannot comprehend the scope of the defense problem.And that's okay, you're not in charge of this war.But it's absolutely criminal Trump doesn't understand it, that his cabinet deliberately doesn't understand what they've done, and they keep lying to you about it.Trump needs to be impeached and held accountable along with every single member of this administration and those in military command who didn't stop this utter madness.

 

I miss the days when the government felt they needed a thin pretext before they invaded some country.