Some quick X threads from the last few days. For the most part, these posts are about news in National Security. We do the scrolling so you don’t have to! This post also serves as an open thread. I welcome readers to post comments or additional links related to national security or history, even if they are not directly related to the links below.
“Hamas deliberately hid literal tons of infant formula and nutritional shakes for children by storing them in clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health.” https://t.co/SXdD1BpJeh
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) December 10, 2025
When you can’t win, you lie. There should be no sympathy for Hamas, and remember, the Palestinians chose them. Quote:
“The goal, as I said then, was to worsen the hunger crisis and initiate a disaster as part of the terror group’s famine narrative in a desperate effort to stop Israel’s onslaught against Gaza and force the return of the UN’s aid distribution mechanism, and away from the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).”
— Cathy Kotze (@CathyPiecat) December 9, 2025
This is what genocide really looks like.
Good video. I’ve been in these tunnels. 2 minutes in them feels like hell. Some hostages spent 2 years in them. Really no words to describe it. @LTC_Shoshani comments at the end of the video important. The tunnels must be destroyed. All of them.https://t.co/oZhVN3DKQ5
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) December 9, 2025
I don’t want to beat a dead horse here because most of my readers actually agree with me, but one should never forget that the tunnels protected the fighters, not the people. The civilians are only for defense in depth, intentionally sacrificed to build a narrative.
Are you starting to see it yet? https://t.co/l9CL3AQ2os
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) December 9, 2025
A flyover of the Chinese buildup in the Pacific. I am sure they are repairing this former Imperial Japanese runway for economic reasons…nothing to see here.
The orange blight is particularly distressing
Right around the time “Unrestricted Warfare” was released, an orange blight called “citrus greening,” or HLB, suspiciously arrived in America after formerly only existing in China
It has destroyed the industry. 95% of Florida’s… https://t.co/Pr7eD6Ev9A pic.twitter.com/mRWoOpgMqP
— The American Tribune (@TAmTrib) December 9, 2025
I truly don’t think the average American understands unrestricted warfare and what we are facing. Warfare without limits, that means the fentanyl and drug epidemic, cyber attacks, stealing identities, hacking elections, competition for influence, and embedding kill switches in their products. Literally anything that you can think of that imposes cost or disruption. This story is the perfect example. I don’t normally quote large sections of others’ work, but this is so important and illustrates the depth of the challenge we are facing.
“Right around the time “Unrestricted Warfare” was released, an orange blight called “citrus greening,” or HLB, suspiciously arrived in America after formerly only existing in China It has destroyed the industry. 95% of Florida’s orange groves are gone because of the blight, and the fact that the Asian psyllid insect that carries HLB remains means they can’t be replanted and brought back. No GMO, insecticide, or antibiotic treatments have worked in fighting off HLB and the psyllid Yet worse, it continues to spread, and has knocked out about two-thirds of American citrus production generally, with California and Texas increasingly feeling the same pain as Florida And just months ago, Chinese researchers connected to the CCP were caught smuggling genetically modified wheat blight into Michigan, which could have done the same thing to wheat that HLB did to oranges, with far more dire consequences.”
The Chinese are driving the sharks extinct
The Chinese have wiped out krill populations across entire regions, driving whales and penguins to starvation
In America, a Chinese-originated blight called HLB has wiped out 95% of Florida oranges, and about two-thirds of citrus… https://t.co/BqoSaCARju
— Will Tanner (@Will_Tanner_1) December 8, 2025
More evidence. And if you don’t believe these because they are just words…they have the receipts.
The Peruvian authorities seized a Chinese fishing vessel operating illegally inside the protected Galapagos Marine Reserve. They were shocked to see thousands of Shark Fins stacked inside the vessel.
In the Guise of normal fishing, the Chinese fishermen illegally hunt sharks in… pic.twitter.com/KxwI8fRQvS
— Isabella Anderson (@IsabellaAn67) December 10, 2025
Video of how China’s trawlers are electrocuting the Persian Gulf & Iran’s coast to death.
Their industrial scale Pulse fishing kills everything—fish, babies, coral- leaving a dead ocean.
These pirates need to be stopped before they leave the ocean lifeless pic.twitter.com/ghNecByvvf
— Dr. Minh Tran (@MinhDr18) December 9, 2025
The environmental destruction is unlike anything the world has ever seen. Just a reminder: this is in Iran, a nominal ally of China, with friends like these…
Confirmed today: The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, currently sailing west in the Pacific on a surge deployment, chopped into U.S. 7th Fleet.
Amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA 7) entered the South China Sea and recently stopped in Da Nang.
New INDOPACOM snapshot: pic.twitter.com/3UCtPCBtMt
— Ian Ellis (@ianellisjones) December 8, 2025
We are responding to the threat, but we need more. Every American and ally can participate in this fight simply by looking at where the products we buy come from. Buy American, shut off the funding spigot.
The truth is, it makes me uneasy sharing this tweet. I can see my readership in China. I know I am making it easier for them to gather intelligence, but you also need to know that we are responding. I don’t know, maybe I don’t share these posts anymore.
Europe doesn’t have “a problem”. It has THREE problems: 3 European nations are suffering from a severe “post-imperial hangover”.
First, there is the United Kingdom, a nation that voted for Brexit to “take back control” only to realize it has completely forgotten how to drive.… pic.twitter.com/9kEkIyCLlS
— Daniel Foubert 🇫🇷🇵🇱 (@Arrogance_0024) December 9, 2025
Unfortunately, these are our allies.
Alright, let’s close this out with a little history.
As someone who obsessively studies WWII, I always love discovering something I didn’t know: https://t.co/ZqfCxBqycu
— Patrick Fox (@RealCynicalFox) December 8, 2025
The depression was rough. Harder than anything that we have faced.
Yamato & her sister ship Musashi were built with armor & guns so massive they were meant to be unchallengeable by American battleships. But by the time they became a factor in the war, two things had made them irrelevant:
Japanese naval gunnery was entirely reliant on OPTICAL… https://t.co/47wGBEE4pZ
— Harold__Finch (@HaroldWren22) December 8, 2025
A warning as we ramp up our shipbuilding capacity. We need to do it fast, but we have to get it right.