"Junior leaders thrive when given real responsibility. A 25-year-old colonel just saved the Revolution because the Commander-in-Chief refused to micromanage him.

"We are still trying to re-learn that lesson 250 years later.

"Every time I teach Mission Command to a new class of officers, NCOs, cops or corporate America, I make them read Washington’s order to Knox. Then I ask: “If your boss gave you an order this short, would you feel liberated—or terrified?”

https://open.substack.com/pub/donvandergriff/p/one-of-the-greatest-military-missions

🇺🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 Angering Denmark, Trump Appoints Special Envoy to Greenland

President Trump, who has long said he wants to “get” the semiautonomous Danish territory, tapped Louisiana’s governor for the new position. Officials in Greenland and Denmark expressed outrage.

Mr. Trump announced on social media on Sunday that he was appointing Governor Jeff Landry of Louisiana, a political ally, to the position. Denmark’s foreign minister quickly criticized the move as “totally unacceptable” and said he would summon the American ambassador in Copenhagen for an explanation.

It appeared to be the first time the United States had appointed a special envoy to Greenland. That gives the territory — a gigantic frozen island inhabited by fewer than 60,000 people — something in common with the war in Ukraine, the conflicts in the Middle East, and a handful of other issues; Mr. Trump has tapped someone close to him to manage all of these as priorities.

Mr. Landry quickly made it clear that he understood what Mr. Trump wanted from him, writing on X: “It’s an honor to serve you in this volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the U.S.”

In a post on Truth Social, Mr. Trump wrote that “Jeff understands how essential Greenland is to our National Security.”

“You cannot annex other countries,” Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark and Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen of Greenland said in a joint statement on Monday. “Not even by invoking international security. Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders, and the United States must not take over Greenland.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/world/europe/trump-special-envoy-greenland-denmark-landry.html

🇬🇧 David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, 1907

🇷🇺 🇹🇷 🇺🇦 Analysis | Russia struck two Turkish-operated vessels near Odesa and framed the attacks as intentional warnings to Kyiv. Turkey responded by shooting down a Russian reconnaissance drone over the Black Sea.

Turkey is one of the few NATO states still providing Russia commercial and diplomatic space. Turkish ports handle oil products and dual-use components Russia struggles to source elsewhere. Turkish banks help navigate sanctions. Turkish firms keep Russian logistics chains running.

President Erdoğan publicly demanded Putin stop attacks on ports and energy infrastructure. Turkish officials warned against turning the Black Sea into a confrontation zone.

If Ankara rethinks this relationship, Russia faces slower trade, fewer loopholes, and tighter restrictions on the goods sustaining its war economy.

📎 Euromaidan Press

Immigrants and Their Idea Nation Lie

Vivek Ramaswamy is not, and will never be, an American: Vivek Ramaswamy has taken to the pages of the New York Times to lecture heritage Americans about what their country really means. According to this son of Indian immigrants—born in 1985 to parents who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Act abolished the national origins system—America […]

https://voxday.net/2025/12/23/immigrants-and-their-idea-nation-lie/

I love how after the first row it kinda just gave up and it becomes more cursed the further down you read

☕️ZOMBIE RULES☙ Tuesday, December 23, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS🦠

At least one Senator has begun openly arguing for our solution to the silent filibuster — only 49 to go. That, and lots more great essential news in today's roundup.

https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/zombie-rules-tuesday-december-23

"Of all the Central Intelligence Agency secrets revealed to the world by the so-called Church Committee of the 1970s, perhaps none captured the American public's imagination as vividly as the agency's "heart attack gun."

https://www.military.com/history/cias-heart-attack-gun-cold-war-weapon-targeted-assassinations.html

Q3 GDP came in at 4.3%, BLOWING PAST expectations of 3.2%. 60 of 61 Bloomberg Economists got it WRONG, but “TRUMP,” and some other Geniuses, got it right. The SUCCESS is due to Good Government, and TARIFFS. Consumer spending is STRONG, Net Exports are WAY UP, Imports and Trade Deficits are WAY DOWN, and there is NO INFLATION! Because of my Tax Bill (THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL) and TARIFFS, INVESTMENT IS SETTING RECORDS. The Trump Economic Golden Age is FULL steam ahead — “You haven’t seen anything yet!” Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Donald J. Trump Truth Social 12.23.25 10:11 AM EST

🏙 Giant skyscraper stabiliser

The Taipei 101 skyscraper is equipped with a tuned mass damper weighing 728 tonnes that stabilises it during strong winds and earthquakes. During a magnitude 6.9 earthquake, it appears that the damper is moving, but it is actually the building that is moving while the damper remains stationary.

Jet carrying Libya’s top brass crashes in Türkiye – media

Turkish authorities have confirmed that they lost contact with the aircraft after it requested an emergency landing The Dassault Falcon 50 private jet carrying senior Libyan military officials is feared to have crashed, southwest...
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