> According to former U.S. intelligence analyst Larry C. Johnson: ”there is nothing the U.S. can do militarily to force open the Strait of Hormuz. Period.”
Of course there is, period. You can drop new clear bombs on them, period. You could also remove all your boats, period, which might not be what you, period, meant, but it is a military thing to do, comma.
MM
on May 22, 2026 at 10:08 am
The formation of NATO ultimately turned out to be a mistake. It made sense if the west was at risk of attack from Russia but it never was. All it led to in the end was each member using its formation as a reason to cut back massively. They could have cut back a bit to save money and still put up a formidable force, but they cut back so much that even collectively they became an inferior force. And in the end the wars they were called to fight showed they were really just America’s bitch.
sophie
on May 22, 2026 at 6:00 pm
I think the world of Larry Johnson. Still, I was a little surprised to hear him assert without qualification that the Israelis/Jews and the Palestinian Arabs are ‘all Semites’.
To my mind, it is self-evident that they are not. That is, we see with our naked eye the physical and cultural differences between the peoples we know as ‘Jews’ and as ‘Arabs’: It is very evident that these two groups are not of the same biological or cultural group.
The Jews are not Semites. They are the progeny of the Turkic-speaking Khazars of northern Europe who who migrated to Eastern and Southern Europe in the 8th and 9th Centuries AD.
However, I must admit, I know of the Khazars hypothesis only what Arthur Koestler expounds upon in his novel, The Thirteenth Tribe. Still, I am persuaded.
chesterton
on May 23, 2026 at 10:56 am
@ sophie..
Semitic is a language group..that’s all it is, like indo european..it has no value beyond that..semitic as a term for imbeciles is a misnomer, it’s a load of old cobblers, cobbled together in the 19th century by jooz to create a useful political tool, one that could be hurled at sensible people who noticed most jewes were a bunch of mixed german/ russian /turks…that had bred with goats..
they even resurrected a dead language to make believe they were something and lo called it hebrew it may as well be fucking welsh..because of course they should have been speaking aramaic..
just a factoid..palestinians are probably edomites..which is another name for goat shagger..the original philistines were actually from macedonia..as they discovered to their dismay when they dug up some dead ones in the stolen state..
> According to former U.S. intelligence analyst Larry C. Johnson: ”there is nothing the U.S. can do militarily to force open the Strait of Hormuz. Period.”
Of course there is, period. You can drop new clear bombs on them, period. You could also remove all your boats, period, which might not be what you, period, meant, but it is a military thing to do, comma.
The formation of NATO ultimately turned out to be a mistake. It made sense if the west was at risk of attack from Russia but it never was. All it led to in the end was each member using its formation as a reason to cut back massively. They could have cut back a bit to save money and still put up a formidable force, but they cut back so much that even collectively they became an inferior force. And in the end the wars they were called to fight showed they were really just America’s bitch.
I think the world of Larry Johnson. Still, I was a little surprised to hear him assert without qualification that the Israelis/Jews and the Palestinian Arabs are ‘all Semites’.
To my mind, it is self-evident that they are not. That is, we see with our naked eye the physical and cultural differences between the peoples we know as ‘Jews’ and as ‘Arabs’: It is very evident that these two groups are not of the same biological or cultural group.
The Jews are not Semites. They are the progeny of the Turkic-speaking Khazars of northern Europe who who migrated to Eastern and Southern Europe in the 8th and 9th Centuries AD.
However, I must admit, I know of the Khazars hypothesis only what Arthur Koestler expounds upon in his novel, The Thirteenth Tribe. Still, I am persuaded.
@ sophie..
Semitic is a language group..that’s all it is, like indo european..it has no value beyond that..semitic as a term for imbeciles is a misnomer, it’s a load of old cobblers, cobbled together in the 19th century by jooz to create a useful political tool, one that could be hurled at sensible people who noticed most jewes were a bunch of mixed german/ russian /turks…that had bred with goats..
they even resurrected a dead language to make believe they were something and lo called it hebrew it may as well be fucking welsh..because of course they should have been speaking aramaic..
just a factoid..palestinians are probably edomites..which is another name for goat shagger..the original philistines were actually from macedonia..as they discovered to their dismay when they dug up some dead ones in the stolen state..
of course anyone with a brain knew that already..