As usual, noncredible proposals become noncredible reality

Put every politician in the world on top of the pile of bombs first, and we have a deal.

21 thermonuclear warheads and you can get a channel as wide as the empty space between Newt Gingrich’s ears.

I literally posted the same suggestion in this community three days ago as a joke!

The ships passing through get upgraded to spicy ships, that’s a plus.

(“Plus” as in premiums so high it’s practically uninsurable)

Wait, is this a real tweet? I figured this had to be a fake.

Even if you ignore the radiation, that material doesn’t just magically go away. It just shatters the rock. You still have to clear the channel and build the infrastructure.

Still asking, how bad would it be? Old craters are safe enough to walk through, and modern nukes can be rendered less radioactive, right? So how much less would it have to be that this would go from an environmental and geopolitical catastrophe that future generations will condemn us for to merely an unbelievably bad idea?

Even if you’re a 30%-lead boomer with decades of severe alcoholism, and think this is a good idea of geoengineering (it is not).

There’s no way that intentionally irradiating large key trade areas of several middle eastern and north African countries for hundreds of years could have any negative blowback on the US now, is there?

Oh…

Oh no.

Oh dear god.

… Operation Glass Cannon appears to be on the drawing board, the irony consultants were I guess all DEI hires and got fired by DOGE.

… god fucking DAMNIT.