The Chinese.
Why are zero of these ships US flagged?
Just blow the wreckage [after removing the ship of cargo].
They already sold off all the emergency oil to power their fantasy fleet
Watching all this happen, the collapse of infrastructure and now failing military capability... it’s like I’m back in college reading Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
As long as China, Russia, Iran, and N. Korea play nice for the next year....we'll be fine.......
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
I know some good old boys who could have that channel opened up in 12 hours.
Problem is they don’t use preferred pronouns so the govt probably won’t call them.
All just a terrible coincidence!
It’s only two of the eight total Algol vessels, and if they really need to leave, the Seabees and the Army Corps of Engineers can likely have the shipping channel clear in a day. It would take much longer to remove all of the wreckage from the river, but clearing *just* the channel enough to get those ships out is doable in an emergency.
There is a story that some of the cargo on the container ship had hazardous materials.
Well of course. Cause this was just an accident according to the Chinese FBI....
nothing to see here....just coicidence...we’re just paranoid....everything is alright and normal.
Hell, they did that on a regular basis during WWII clearing Italian and French ports.
The Ready Reserve Force (RRF)
Vessels
The program began with 6 vessels in 1977 and now consists of 48:
42 roll-on/roll off (RO/RO) vessels, including
8 Fast Sealift Support (FSS) vessels,
7 LMSR's (Large, Medium-Speed, Roll-on/Roll-off)
4 auxiliary craneships, and
2 aviation repair vessels
Uh oh here go the tin foil guys…
Now they have to insert “not so” in front of “rapid” in the name of the outfit.
Meh. They just happened to be at the dock. If there were a real emergency and they had to clear harbor there would be an exit made in a week tops.
No reason, then, to believe that “no sabotage” was involved with ramming a bridge abutment and closing a vital port for the eastern United States.
Of course, it looks like an “accident”. All the best sabotage does.
A “black swan” incident that has ramifications far beyond the actual chain of events. And all negative.
Categorical imperative - CLEAR THAT CHANNEL WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED. But judging from past performance of the current crew in the Oval Office, that could take YEARS, when weeks could do it.
Algol class vessels are “some of the fastest cargo vessels of their general size anywhere in the world.”
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Hey
Better make them run on batteries.