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angrychair

(12,206 posts) Sun Mar 15, 2026, 07:18 PM Sunday

Let's Nuke it! [View all]

Instead of fighting over a 21 mile bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detentions and you've got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks. - Written by Newt Gingrich on Twitter

I cannot even express how completely insane this is and how it makes absolutely no sense at all.
I mean are these these the radiation free nukes I have heard nothing about? Do nuclear devices only explode in straight, predictable lines now?

I mean I'm absolutely not an expert, not a civil engineer but this seems like a very bad idea.

Reference:

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— Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) 2026-03-15T22:17:00.201Z

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