Some 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.
Are you looking at the right maps?
h/t @RhodesMaps & @CleoPaskal https://t.co/2izmzCkOBE pic.twitter.com/06kzRqi0Yv— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) December 10, 2025
This is your must-read of the day. Here is the direct link to the Substack if you don’t have X. Even if you don’t want to read the article, take a look at the map. It is all about perspective because if you change your view of the map and look at it from an orientation from China, it will cause a pucker in places we don’t talk about on this site.
“For the PRC, the primary military threat to plan for comes across the Pacific into a funnel that terminates at its most important SLOC. It’s the United States of America, and the US has a series of islands leading right into the heart of the PRC’s. It starts in Hawaii — Midway, Wake, Guam — and then to U.S. allies: the Philippines, Japan, and Australia.”
Here is another important quote:
Very important argument.
“Make no mistake, we may say we are going to ‘defend Taiwan,’ but to do that we will have to fight an aggressive war across the Pacific, into the enemy’s prepared funnel.” https://t.co/1FU7Fty4Qp
— Aaron MacLean (@AaronBMacLean) December 10, 2025
So what do we do? Well, Japan appears to be doing its part.
This makes me so happy. Japan gets it and is doing something about it. Not only are they doing something, but a “Missile Archipelago” just sounds cool. Japan is building out its defenses with some urgency. They are the first island chain. Let me be clear. This IS in response to the PRC build-up and continuous provocation in the South China Sea West Philippine Sea, and abroad. Now, go have some babies.
I have the same question
China has been causing serious damage in West African waters, where communities are already struggling with poverty and ongoing conflicts
Human rights and environmental activists remain largely silent, apparently, it’s different when China is involved https://t.co/HJrrtAH5rs pic.twitter.com/H2UlqDQ1Yf
— David Walpiri (@DWalpiri) December 10, 2025
We are witnessing the greatest environmental destruction in the history of mankind, and human rights and environmental activists are on the sidelines. Heck, even our own media is largely silent on this issue. China is destroying the world’s fisheries, and nobody cares. We cannot remain silent on this issue. Do your part, talk about it. Spread the word.
Uncovering the Gaza mega-tunnel where Lt. Hadar Goldin was held for 11 years @ynetnews https://t.co/jIIQgmFZ2F
“This is the most complex tunnel I’ve ever seen,” said a Yahalom officer who has inspected numerous underground networks in Gaza over the past two years. “There were…
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) December 10, 2025
Lots of news in recent days about the complexity of Hamas’ tunnels in Gaza. These tunnels are why the fight took so long. These tunnels are why there were so many civilian casualties. These tunnels protected the fighters and hid the hostages. These tunnels were NOT used to protect the civilians. Hamas is, was, and will always be responsible for the destruction and death in Gaza.
“We assume Hamas saw how close we were getting and didn’t want its prestige damaged,” the officers said. “They preferred to be the ones to retrieve him. Very few in Hamas knew exactly where Hadar was kept. He became a symbol within Hamas. Rafah Brigade commander Muhammad Shabana (who used the tunnel extensively during the war and was killed along with Hamas military chief Mohammed Sinwar beneath a Khan Younis hospital) had a personal obsession with guarding Hadar.”
Follow the link, look at the pictures, read the article.
Unmasking CAIR: A Critical Deep Dive into the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a thread:🧵 pic.twitter.com/BSr7jZ5okB
— Green Beret Nap Time (@GBNT1952) December 10, 2025
This is a deeep dive on CAIR, and again, it is really important to go deep on this organization to understand the news. This is not Islamaphobia, and it is important to know, understand, and acknowledge that this organization wants to fundamentally change the United States. Principally, they are antithetical to the Constitution. Here are just a couple of quotes:
“Legally, CAIR has hovered on the margins of serious trouble without ever being criminally charged. The Holy Land Foundation case is crucial: prosecutors identified CAIR as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding network.
In response, the FBI quietly cut off its official outreach partnership with CAIR nationwide, citing evidence connecting CAIR’s founders and the Hamas support infrastructure. That ban has never meaningfully been reversed.
A Muslim majority country went even further: in 2014, the UAE designated CAIR a terrorist organization as part of its crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood-linked networks. The U.S. does not follow that designation, but it shows how CAIR is viewed in parts of the Arab world.”
And one more:
“It is a sophisticated advocacy machine born from Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood networks, fueled in part by foreign money, led by ideologues with long records of extremist rhetoric, and committed to reshaping law and culture in ways that chip away at core constitutional norms.”
Read it all.
🚨 BREAKING: Rep. Tim Burchett exposes that his bill banning taxpayer dollars from going to the Taliban is being BLOCKED because of a Senate staffer who had his security clearance DENIED by DNI Tulsi Gabbard due to his relationship with the Taliban.
WOW.
“We can’t get the bill… pic.twitter.com/VrBHoxOGmn
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 10, 2025
Today, we leave you with perhaps the best US Congressman that we have. I do not understand how or why we could still be sending money to the Taliban. This is suicide. My favorite quote:
“They will hate us for free. All they’re going to do is use that money to come at us in a different area and kill Americans and kill our allies. Dadgum it!”