That goes for the various cranks on the right we considered the other day, most prominently podcaster Tucker Carlson, formally “evicted” from MAGA by President Donald Trump and sadly now claiming the CIA is out to frame him. Much as many of these same nations did join in NATO’s Operation Ocean Shield and the European Union’s Operation Atalanta to counter Somali piracy a decade or two back — with the navies of India and China playing an important role, too. It all brings to mind Winston Churchill’s remark after Britain and France joined Israel to recapture another key waterway, the Suez Canal, from Egypt in 1956 — only to be slapped down by Washington: “I would never have dared,” but “if I had dared, I would certainly never have dared stop.”
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Published at: 2026-03-17 22:21:49
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