JOHN A KONRAD V: The think tanks didn’t offer an alternative. They offered learned helplessness. And that helplessness is the context in which Hormuz is now playing out.

And there was an even bigger loss that didn't make headlines but I'm told hit trump personally and it reveals how the military academia and think tank establishment, which gets significant funding and support from Europe, fights back.

In December, Trump announced the Golden… pic.twitter.com/cMuRCOBvaY

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) March 18, 2026

And there was an even bigger loss that didn't make headlines but I'm told hit Trump personally and it reveals how the military academia and think tank establishment, which gets significant funding and support from Europe, fights back. In December, Trump announced the Golden Fleet initiative at Mar-a-Lago: a new class of Trump-class battleships, 30,000-40,000 tons, armed with hypersonic missiles, railguns, lasers, and nuclear cruise missiles. The USS Defiant. A ship he designed with

@SECNAV

to hold chokepoints like Hormuz. Twenty to twenty-five hulls. The most ambitious surface combatant program since World War II. Within 72 hours, the national security think tank world lined up to kill it. CSIS published a piece titled “The Golden Fleet’s Battleship Will Never Sail,” estimating $9 billion per hull, predicting cancellation before the first ship hits water. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies called it a waste. Retired admirals said the Navy should buy small distributed platforms instead. Every defense analyst in Washington competed to be quoted saying it was impossible. The military industrial establishment, with the help from allied think tanks and colleges, lined up to piss on the plans. The same establishment that can’t build a frigate on time, that delivered the Constellation class years late before canceling it, that produced three Zumwalts instead of thirty, that has presided over the smallest Navy since World War I, lined up overnight to explain why America can’t build big ships anymore. The same people who have no plan to close the destroyer gap that is right now undermining convoy escort operations in the Gulf. The think tanks didn’t offer an alternative. They offered learned helplessness. And that helplessness is the context in which Hormuz is now playing out.

And the tariff decision took away a huge source of revenue to fund it without congress... which won't even vote on the bipartisan SHIPs Act. 

HITLER to WOKESTER: You want to force your ideas into the population, right? Me too!

It's not a trick or play on words. https://t.co/j302JyTTQa

— Stephen Coughlin (@S_Coughlin_DC) April 1, 2026

WOKESTER:  I'm a time traveler from the year 2026 and I'm here to end you, Hitler.  Soon we will be able to take back the White House and we will be able to use the government to force people to follow our great ideas.

HITLER:  You want to force your ideas into the population, right?  Me too!  

WOKESTER:  You and I have nothing in common what I'm saying is that there people in our time with dangerous ideas and we need to silence them.

HITLER: Silence those who disagree with you?  I do that too!  Ha ha ha!

WOKESTER:  What I'm saying is that we are very close to creating Utopia as long as we can get rid of some undesirable people grouping.

HITLER:  Yes, the Jews.  

WOKESTER:  Yes, yes, the Jews!  Ahhh!

TOM LUONGO: I tried to tell everyone for weeks that this was a war to liberate the Iranian people and its government from the crazy British assets known as the Shia clerics and the IRGC.

I tried to tell everyone for weeks that this was a war to liberate the Iranian people and its government from the crazy British assets known as the Shia clerics and the IRGC

That Trump’s strategy left them prepared for the wrong war, which left the IRGC blind and toothless… https://t.co/qV4bzgTNl2

— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) March 31, 2026

I tried to tell everyone for weeks that this was a war to liberate the Iranian people and its government from the crazy British assets known as the Shia clerics and the IRGC. That Trump’s strategy left them prepared for the wrong war, which left the IRGC blind and toothless within days. This war entered the negotiation stage with the weak civilian government very early and that all that was needed was time to complete the hard target elimination and then set terms which made them look like rational actors who chose life not suicide. Those coping with this keep clinging to the idea that the US lost because it didn’t fight the war the experts decided was the war they needed to fight. The bargaining stage of grief begins today for them. Depression (and extreme loss of face) begins in about a week.

JOHN A KONRAD: You cannot load dozens of massive US Merchant Marine cargo ships and still maintain OPSEC. It is impossible. That is exactly why, from WW2 until 2025, the US Army relied on preloaded ships packed with tanks, munitions, and heavy equipment, prepositioned around the world and ready to go.

The comments calling me a traitor for revealing Army deployment secrets are absurd.

You cannot load dozens of massive US Merchant Marine cargo ships and still maintain OPSEC. It is impossible.

That is exactly why, from WW2 until 2025, the US Army relied on preloaded ships… https://t.co/vCv2u9Ruxb pic.twitter.com/HTHBUYyA4b

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) March 25, 2026

REP. DAVID MORALES (D-RI): And we can both agree that this mural behind us does not reflect Providence's values, nor does it reflect creativity we want to see in our city."

pic.twitter.com/W4WLeaYGNO

— Serf (@TheRoyalSerf) March 31, 2026

I realize that the cartelized immigration was out of control, but how is there a 28-year-old Mexican kid all the way up inside US territory, in Rhode Island, representing Providence, RI, while he can't even refer to taxpayers or citizens as Americans, but insists on referring to them as  whitewashed, blanched, devoid of identity or any meaning as "Community members"?  What is wrong with Zacatecas, Morales, or Oaxaca?   

Rep. David Morales (D-RI) says the mural for Iryna Zarutska "does not reflect our values" pic.twitter.com/KL6lrDjl0I

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 31, 2026

> White girl gets butchered by Black killer for all the world to see

> Mural of White victim is painted on a private building in Providence, RI

> City's Jewish homosexual mayor leads successful effort to remove the mural of the murdered White girl pic.twitter.com/bR3eK5BIYm

— Daniel Concannon (@TooWhiteToTweet) March 31, 2026

MICHAEL O'FALLON: So while the crowd of Poso, Flynn, Tucker, MacIntyre (not his real name), the TechBros and the Integralists are whispering in Donald Trump's ear to embrace the mantle of the "Unbound Executive", the same operation on the Left is running the very astroturfed "No Kings" rallies across the country.

Dialectical political warfare: back-and-forth, one staged conflict after another to destabilize our nation. --Michael O'Fallon

The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies has reviewed "Aleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics", the book chosen by Jack Posobiec for his summer reading in 2017, and it contains the following:

"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the… pic.twitter.com/D1KMWZHzl4

— Michael O'Fallon - Sovereign Nations (@SovMichael) March 29, 2026

The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies has reviewed "Aleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics", the book chosen by Jack Posobiec for his summer reading in 2017, and it contains the following: "Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada.

Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics." And this is exactly what Mike Flynn, Jack Posobiec, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Auron MacIntyre (not his real name), Steve Bannon, the crowd of Roman Catholic Integralists and the Protestant Christian Nationalists (Integralism with Protestant characteristics) have done: Introduced geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. This is what our constitutional republic has been enduring over the past 4 years: an attempt to create a color revolution model on the Faux-Right that will compliment the color revolution model on the Radical Left that will tear our nation to pieces that will only leave behind a sublated, fractured, techno-feudalist shell of what was once the most powerful nation on earth. So while the crowd of Poso, Flynn, Tucker, MacIntyre (not his real name), the TechBros and the Integralists are whispering in Donald Trump's ear to embrace the mantle of the "Unbound Executive", the same operation on the Left is running the very astroturfed "No Kings" rallies across the country. Dialectical political warfare: back-and-forth, one staged conflict after another to destabilize our nation. And somehow, many of these men and women who are hell-bent on fracturing our nation, are the hand-picked representatives of the press pool at the White House. Simply amazing. I am hoping that @realDonaldTrump is beginning to see the treasonous betrayal of these bad actors. My guess is that he is just now beginning to become aware of the scheme - or at least a few pieces of the strategy. 

MICHAEL GUIMARIN: The billionaire tax in CA is an example of an irregular warfare action by the Chinese Communist Party on the United States.

I’m coming off private for about an hour so you can read this.

The billionaire tax in CA is an example of an irregular warfare action by the Chinese Communist Party on the United States.

What it does is push out the people who would fight CCP encroachment into CA. The CCP… https://t.co/cVf5rpP1qD

— Michael Guimarin (@MichaelGuimarin) January 17, 2026

🇺🇸 $3000 in 1967 could get you a car or . . .

🇺🇸 $3000 in 1967 could get you a car or … pic.twitter.com/1Jn6eB7UR4

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) March 29, 2026

Wanker Michael Healy-Rae is selling out his countrymen to 3rd world Jihadis.

Wanker Michael Healy-Rae is selling out his countrymen to 3rd world Jihadis.

— MichaeloKeeffe (@MickOKeeffe) March 28, 2026

When Irish people see a corrupt politician walking the streets... https://t.co/Njo3pZ9QHJ pic.twitter.com/yUE21xNS5u

— MichaeloKeeffe (@MickOKeeffe) March 29, 2026

Anglo-Saxon Bloke Don't Like to Be Poked

"Don't touch me, Abdul. Go back to your home!" Europe needs men like him. pic.twitter.com/NWvt1SgJmj

— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) March 29, 2026

RYAN GERRITSEN: US vs Canada's military strength.

Great video but they don’t show how old or broken most of the Canadian military equipment is. https://t.co/rU8qHH4im1

— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) March 28, 2026

President Trump’s military demonstrations in Venezuela and Iran were acts of supreme kindness towards Chairman Xi, as they have given him the first **real** information about the Communist Party’s military capabilities.

Marxists use language to persuade, not describe, both… pic.twitter.com/IOlHvoiw2V

— joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) (@JoshuaSteinman) March 29, 2026

President Trump’s military demonstrations in Venezuela and Iran were acts of supreme kindness towards Chairman Xi, as they have given him the first **real** information about the Communist Party’s military capabilities. Marxists use language to persuade, not describe, both internally and externally. So the CCP military was never **not** going to develop “a stealth fighter,” or “stealth-detecting radars.” To fail at these tasks would be an unacceptable humiliation. But the question is: did they really? The answer is no. Which is to say: Xi lives in a world where he cannot trust ANY information presented to him by his own system, because it arrives via a filter not only of consensus but also of pride. “The CCP cannot fail, history is on our side!” Except it isn’t. Realty exists. And the total failure of their equipment in VZ and IR was the first time Xi has ever received REAL information about his military’s capabilities. And it’s not good. Xi must now revisit every assumption he has about action in Taiwan. And he is now forced to confront reality, that his staff lie not out of malice but because COMMUNISM DEMANDS YOU IGNORE REALITY.

Interesting days ahead. 

MARK GROUBERT: 500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind the #NoKings protests and communist call for 'revolution'

500 groups with $3B in revenues are behind the #NoKings protests and communist call for 'revolution' https://t.co/uNjZQP6lY7 #FoxNews

— Mark Groubert (@lordbuckly) March 29, 2026

RYAN HOLIDAY: The Stoic Abilities That Determine Your Entire Life

The Stoic Abilities That Determine Your Entire Life pic.twitter.com/v2UxG74ZqI

— Ryan Holiday (@RyanHoliday) March 27, 2026

STEPHEN COUGHLIN: 18 U.S.C. § 111 makes it a federal crime to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with designated federal officers or employees while they are performing official duties.

@linuxhippie Clearly, the Philly DA Larry forgot his ConLaw class on the Federal Pre-emption clause of the Constitution.

He also seems to have forgotten that Title 18 USC Section 111 makes it a felony for him to interfere with a federal officer in the execution of his office.… https://t.co/RDMY3p09fz

— Stephen Coughlin (@S_Coughlin_DC) March 25, 2026

@linuxhippie. Clearly, the Philly DA Larry forgot his ConLaw class on the Federal Pre-emption clause of the Constitution.

He also seems to have forgotten that Title 18 USC Section 111 makes it a felony for him to interfere with a federal officer in the execution of his office. Question? Has the FBI or DHS ALSO forgotten Section 111? Because, from where many stand in the cheap seats, the moment a state or local actor interferes with a federal officer in the conduct of his duties, those persons should be arrested, as should any and all individuals ordering that activity. And yes, it's really as simple, and as simply clear, as that. From the AI distillation of Section 111:

18 U.S.C. § 111 makes it a federal crime to forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with designated federal officers or employees while they are performing official duties. Penalties range from 1 year (simple assault) up to 20 years (use of a deadly weapon or infliction of bodily injury.

For Larry Krasner's political grandstanding,

Note: this is sedition. https://t.co/9yh2OV34sK

— Tactical Wisdom (@DolioJ) March 25, 2026

ARTURO MCFIELDS YESCAS: During the 10th Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, organized by Colombia, Xi Jinping had hoped to deliver a virtual address to 33 heads of state from the Americas. But the event managed to attract only three Latin American presidents.

The Americas turn their backs on Xi Jinping. https://t.co/nBjEdPpgnV

— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) March 28, 2026

Just a few days ago, China suffered yet another major political defeat. During the tenth Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, organized by Colombia, Xi Jinping had hoped to deliver a virtual address to 33 heads of state from the Americas. But the event managed to attract only three Latin American presidents. This was a significant embarrassment, given that this organization is China’s version of the U.S.-created Organization of American States. "China Is Losing Ports, Power, and Presence in Latin America," Arturo McFields, The Hill, March 25, 2026.

TRANSODIUS: California is a bigger national security threat than Iran is.

So California is the Australia of North America?

California is a bigger national security threat than Iran is. https://t.co/gjKkvlg5Us

— TransOdius (@TransOdius) March 27, 2026

For your Stockholm Syndrome / That makes us Dhimmi in our home / O, you know where you can shove your Palestine

IRELAND WILL RISE AGAIN!!!

pic.twitter.com/JO2qV9C16N

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) March 27, 2026

O, you know where you can shove your Palestine.

You can stick it where the sun don't shine

For your Stockholm Syndrome 

That makes us Dhimmi in our home,

O, you know where you can shove your Palestine

EYAL YAKOBY: Outside of City Hall in Philadelphia, masked Islamists light dozens of American flags on fire.

This is just the beginning of what happens to your home when cockroaches are left unattended. https://t.co/NBwNoqfaiL

— John Guandolo (@JGuandolo54271) March 26, 2026

Meanwhile in Italian Kindergarten,

Catholic children are forced to perform Islamic prayers without parental consent!

They were made to perform the Salah - a prayer that denounces other faiths as 'cursed' pic.twitter.com/KOZExfICSQ

— Islam Invasion 🚨 (@IslamInvasion) March 27, 2026

MAG 1775: Church of England primary school in Lincolnshire. Seven-year-old kids kneeling toward Mecca. Then told to “have a go” on prayer rugs to Allah.Not Christian prayers. Islamic ones. In a Christian school.

I’m sure it’s fine when they take Muslim children to the Christian church and have them pray to Jesus…right? https://t.co/Ng0W9PxhIj

— Anthony Cumia (@AnthonyCumia) March 27, 2026