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Former Speaker of the US House of Representatives Newt Gingrich proposed creating a new canal using thermonuclear bombs as an alternative to the Strait of Hormuz."A dozen thermonuclear explosions, and you'll have a waterway wider than the Panama ...
...Canal, deeper than the Suez Canal, and secure from Iranian attack," the 82-year-old Republican politician wrote on the social media site X.Users added context to his post, claiming Gingrich borrowed the idea from a parody open letter posted on the analytical resource ChinaTalk. The letter noted that the author's views do not necessarily reflect the views of "anyone with brains. "