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L Maxwell

L Maxwell

Author and podcaster specializing in contemporary romance and thriller fiction; guest on Common Knowledge with Marcus L-Spade Johnson discussing economics and working-class politics

Jun 7, 2026

3:55
And could you, um, break that down a little bit, what's going on?
3:58
Essentially, I guess they got wise to figure out how when you control certain chokeholds like the Strait of Hormuz, uh, there's a s- there's a little island in the middle of Albania and Italy that controls that little choke point between the, uh, Mediterranean Sea and...
4:13
What is, what's the sea that connects to it? Is the Caspian Sea or Black Sea? One of those seas.
4:17
And so they're trying to essentially take control of that.
4:21
And in the years past during world war, o- other world wars and stuff, people have used that as a foothold to, you know, to constrain traffic that's coming from the north to the southern part of Europe.
4:33
And so there's already all these bunkers and stuff there.
4:36
So to me, I'm just like, you know, I'm not trying to go down the conspiracy theory ra- uh, rabbit hole, but it makes sense why they want that island so bad.

22 MINS LATER

27:03
Even if he gets out of office and get convicted for all these crimes that we know he did, he like, "Fuck it, what you gonna do? You, you gonna take a old, dying man to jail?"

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