[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Each time a ship is saved from incoming missiles, say a Maersk ship, send Maersk and it’s freight insurers a $1,000,000,000.00 invoice. If they don’t pay it, let the missiles find their target 'next time'."

Sounds like a fiscally rational plan.

[DIRTYSECRET]

*The fourth boat fled the area.*

No excuse for that.

[himno hero]

Yep, then the insurance companies Jack the bill 400% to be passed on to all of us.

[telescope115]

Sounds like a fiscally rational plan.

It also sounds like we’d be running a protection racket.

[Cen-Tejas]

....a fully loaded Maersk type container ship, including all cargo and crew (lawsuits/family) would, I imagine, be worth a lot more than 1 billion dollars.

Divide that invoice up between Maersk, the Finnish Government and scores of insurers and it would be a lot less painful than losing the ship, cargo and crew.

To replace even one of these US destroyers would be several billion dollars.

Trump will do something like this. Biden and his marxists would not even think about it.