APPLE LAMPS: Three Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships . . .Canberra, Santa Barbara, and Tulsa . . . all three already deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet, all three operating in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf right now,

Everything you said about the current state of the Navy's mine countermeasures capability is wrong. Not a little wrong. Completely, embarrassingly, dangerously wrong....

"The four ships we had dedicated to doing this we just decommissioned." The Avengers in Bahrain...… pic.twitter.com/lXDbh8FjOr

— Apple Lamps (@lamps_apple) March 11, 2026

Apple Lamps responding to Malcolm Nance,

Everything you said about the current state of the Navy's mine countermeasures capability is wrong. Not a little wrong. Completely, embarrassingly, dangerously wrong.... "The four ships we had dedicated to doing this we just decommissioned." The Avengers in Bahrain... Devastator, Dextrous, Gladiator, Sentry. Wooden-hulled ships from the 1980s. Ships that were pushing 40 years old. You know what replaced them? Three Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships... Canberra, Santa Barbara, and Tulsa… all three already deployed to U.S. 5th Fleet, all three operating in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf right now, today, as you wrote this little rant. Not in San Diego. Not in drydock. In theater. Carrying the most advanced mine countermeasures mission package the Navy has ever fielded. USS Canberra arrived in Bahrain in May 2025 as the first LCS with a full MCM mission package. USS Santa Barbara is in the Arabian Gulf conducting mine countermeasures operations with unmanned surface vehicles… and, by the way, just made naval history by executing the first-ever at-sea launch of a LUCAS one-way attack drone from a littoral combat ship under Task Force 59. USS Tulsa is right there alongside them. Three ships. In the Gulf. Doing the mission. While you say the Navy "is absolutely not ready for this." These are fundamentally different platforms. Autonomous mine-hunting sonar… the AN/AQS-20C… towed by unmanned surface vehicles so sailors stay outside the minefield. Airborne laser mine detection systems on MH-60 helicopters. Unmanned influence sweep systems for acoustic and magnetic minesweeping. The old Avengers sent sailors INTO the minefield on wooden boats. The new systems keep them OUT of the minefield using robots... something you call a "downgrade" And while Santa Barbara hunts mines, she's operating under armed overwatch from A-10C Warthogs out of Jordan… loaded with JDAMs, laser-guided APKWS rockets, and enough firepower to shred any fast boat or drone swarm the Islamic Regime throws at them. The Avengers never had anything like that. "We lost all of our corporate knowledge." Really? The Navy spent a decade building, testing, qualifying, and deploying an entirely new mine warfare architecture specifically to preserve and advance that knowledge. They trained new crews. They ran operational tests on Cincinnati. They deployed the first operational package on Canberra. The Navy's mine countermeasures technical division ran this transition for years with deliberate overlap between old and new platforms. You lose corporate knowledge when you do nothing. The Navy did the opposite of nothing. "Now we're running an experiment and it's gonna cost people their lives." Three combat ships, forward deployed in the most contested waters on earth, running mine countermeasures with unmanned systems, protected by close air support, integrated with Task Force 59's autonomous warfare network. That's the most capable mine warfare force the United States has put in the Persian Gulf since 1991.

Yelling "amateur hour" at people while getting the basic facts of the Navy's current force posture completely, demonstrably wrong… while three ships are literally in the water doing the job he says nobody can do… that IS amateur hour. 

BILL FEDERER: By 2030, there will be a majority Muslim population in Europe, and they'll just flat out vote in Sharia law.

Historian Bill Federer: "By 2030, there will be a majority Muslim population in Europe, and they'll just flat out vote in Sharia law."

"People forget Egypt was completely Christian for six centuries. It's not anymore. All of North Africa was completely Christian for six… pic.twitter.com/F3TYed8yix

— Red Pill Dispenser (@redpilldispensr) March 12, 2026

They say that by 2030 there will be a majority Muslim population in Europe, and they'll just flat out vote in Sharia law. And it won't just be no-go zones where they take over entire neighborhoods in Paris or around Belgium, London. No, they'll take over entire cities.

And people forget, Egypt was completely Christians for 6 centuries, 600 years. It's not anymore. All of North Africa was completely Christian for six centuries. It's not anymore.

All of Turkey, all seven churches mentioned in the book of Revelation we're all in Turkey and they were all taken over by the Muslim Turks.

Constantinople was the largest Christian city in the world. And the largest Christian Church in the world for hundreds of years was the Hagia Sophia, and it got turned into a mosque. And and so they want to do the same thing with the Vatican. And recently they allowed . . . Muslim prayers in the Vatican. So we see that it's headed in that direction. And the tremendous number of burning churches in Europe have happened since Islamic immigration.

STEPHEN COUGHLIN: it’s of paramount importance to ensure that the target organizations have already been conditioned to only respond to events in the ‘here and now’, thus ensuring that the larger attack, along with the intersectional attack strategy itself, cannot be discerned.

2) There is nothing speculative here. The problem is that our national security apparatus has formally purged all awareness of jihad as warfare, as well as all C3-associated considerations regarding such attacks, such that all Islamic-identified attacks are programmatically only… pic.twitter.com/S6iXS3kaE0

— Stephen Coughlin (@S_Coughlin_DC) March 12, 2026

ROHAN DAS: this professor explains [game theory] so simply that even a 15-year-old can understand it. Once you understand this, you start seeing hidden strategies everywhere - in markets, business, and life.

His name is Jiang Xueqin. 

This too:  https://t.co/JQnaMWZ0hu

— Alex (Sasha) Krainer (@NakedHedgie) March 11, 2026

“The Cuban Communist Party Is Doomed.” When asked about the potential collapse of Cuba’s communist regime, former CIA operative and president of Georgetown Research @JMichaelWaller said there is no certain way to predict how a collapse might unfold. However, he argued the… pic.twitter.com/vFWnYYTJPi

— Steve Lance (@SteveLanceNTD) March 11, 2026