@XVanFleet We are to be the Americans we are for America. Love for our people, love for the welfare of our country.
How hard is that to understand?🤷♀️
Jared and Ivanka Kushner want to buy Sazan Island in Albania because it is beautiful and they want to make it a resort. How nice!
But Sazan island is not a vacation spot. It’s a well-documented strategic military chokepoint with a long military history.
In 1958, Nikita Khrushchev stood at the nearby Soviet submarine base and said, "From there I could control the Mediterranean to Gibraltar." Sazan island controls the Strait of Otranto, and the Strait of Otranto controls access to the entire Adriatic.
Every empire that wanted to control the Adriatic, wanted Sazan. Romans. Ottomans. Italians. Germans. Soviets.
What Ivanka describes as "An unbelievable, beautiful 1,400-hectare private island in the middle of the Mediterranean," is approximately 3,600 nuclear bunkers and kilometers of tunnels and hardened underground facilities, including a submarine pen the Soviets built specifically to project power into the Mediterranean, and is still an Albanian military zone.
The deal was negotiated in secret. Albanian citizens and their own parliament didn't know about it until the press reported it. The Albanian government approved it immediately after Trump won reelection. Kushner’s newly formed investment company is using $4.6 billion from Saudi Arabia and Gulf sovereign wealth funds to fund the purchase. A Qatari company, Power International Holding, is a co-owner of the project and is currently under investigation by Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors.
Now that the deal is public, the Albanians are pissed. They're in the streets marching by the thousands in Tirana, Albania’s capital with banners reading "Albania is not for sale." Private security forces have attacked protesters. The Albanian government has suspended police officers, and revoked security company licenses.
Yep, just a couple private civilians looking to open a resort. No need to look further...
Now that you know the whole story, what do you think?
A woman lost her job of 33 years for standing on her faith — and a jury just handed her $12.7 million.
Lisa Domski, a Catholic IT specialist, was fired from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in January 2022 after the company denied her religious exemption request to their COVID-19 vaccine mandate. She argued the vaccines violated her sincerely held beliefs because they were developed using fetal cells.
She sued in 2023, alleging religious discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A federal jury sided with her, awarding $10 million in punitive damages, over $1.3 million in lost future wages, and $1 million in noneconomic damages.
This case set a precedent. When a corporation ignores a written statement of faith, dismisses 33 years of loyalty, and fires someone without even contacting their pastor — that is not policy enforcement. That is religious discrimination.
Scripture has always been clear:
“There is neither slave nor free...
for you are all one in Christ Jesus."
— Galatians 3:28.
Every believer carries equal dignity
before God and before the law.
No employer has the right to force someone to choose between their livelihood and their conscience 🙏♥️
Three reasons, all documented. Al Jazeera, CBS News, and Times of Israel report Albanians are protesting environmental destruction of a protected wildlife zone already underway, a corruption investigation by Albanian prosecutors into how the land was acquired, and a deal negotiated in secret without their knowledge or consent. That's why they're in the streets. The facts are available to everyone if you care to look.
Trump is once again talking about Kharg Island and saying we can take it "at a time of our choosing."
He's not wrong. We can get troops on that island.
But he's not telling you what happens next.
Kharg Island is 16 miles off the Iranian coast. Iran has every square foot of it registered for artillery and rocket fire. They've spent the last three months laying anti-personnel mines on the beaches, pre-deploying shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, and moving IRGC troops into hardened positions. They know we might be coming.
Every one of our ships in our assault force is 47 seconds from an Iranian anti-ship cruise missile. Every Marine on that island is within rocket artillery range of a coastline that runs 1,500 miles. We can't suppress that effectively even if we used all of our forces
I flew CH-53E helicopters in Desert Storm, and I know what it means to put troops in a fixed position on a small island with no room to maneuver and no friendly territory within reach. The military term for that is a kill box. The political term is leverage. The human term is a body bag.
The analysts are being careful in how they are framing it. Ryan Brobst and Cameron McMillan of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which is about as hawkish as think tanks get, wrote in March that a seizure and occupation "is more likely to expand and extend the war than it is to deliver any sort of decisive victory." Former CENTCOM commander Joseph Votel said troops on the island would be "very vulnerable" and would require massive logistical backup. Malcolm Davis of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute put it more plainly: "I think the Iranians can probably sit back and attack Americans on Kharg Island, and casualties will mount up."
That's the politically correct version.
Here's what they're not saying out loud: Iran has FPV drones. The same camera-equipped drones being used by the millions in Ukraine. If our troops land on that island, Iranian drone footage of American casualties will be on every screen in the world within hours. Trump will own every frame of it.
Iraq bombed Kharg Island for four straight years during the Iran-Iraq War. From 1982 to 1986, but they never put a single soldier on it. They couldn't. The Iranians rebuilt and kept exporting oil. That's the historical record on what "taking Kharg" actually means.
And here's the part that makes even less sense: seizing the island doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz. Kharg is 300 miles from the strait. The Iranians mine the strait from their southern coastline. You'd have to suppress 1,500 miles of Iranian coast to fix that problem. Kharg is just a political symbol, not a solution.
We can bomb it into rubble. We've already struck over 90 targets there. Trump can destroy every oil facility on that island from the air, permanently. That's a real option with real consequences for Iran's economy and real consequences for global oil markets.
But putting Americans on the ground 16 miles from the Iranian coast, surrounded by water, within range of everything Iran has left?
That's not a strategic or tactical military operation. That's just a sacrifice of American lives.
Are you OK with that?
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Bill Gates shows up to testify about his direct connections to Jeffrey Epstein's child trafficking network with a big smirk on his face.
The testimony will be behind closed doors with no cameras.
Gates knows he will get away with his crimes against children.
Our entire government is a joke.