The speculation regarding a deliberate use of the Evergreen ship to block the Suez Canal is all very interesting. With all the difficulties, it is still a temporary situation. Perhaps this is just a technical “dry run”, run aground in this case, to determine if blocking the canal IS possible, and how long will it take to correct.
More evidence of deliberate sabotage would come with a similar or even more destructive action at the Panama Canal. Then what? High prices certainly, but American Navy ships would be blocked from transferring between oceans, temporarily cutting the US Fleet in half. Who might benefit from that, I’ll let you guess.
You can bet the Suez Canal has long been considered a target as a military chokepoint /Captain Obvious
Economic chokepoint too - as is being demonstrated right now - even if by accident
Panama Canal really isn’t that important anymore. Comparatively speaking the Suez is way more important because of the oil. Our navy hardly uses the canal. Partly because of how it’s organized. There’s the PAC fleet and the ATL fleet. And trying to get any major force through there would just be dumb, they’d be spread thin and highly vulnerable, way better to go around the horn in a proper well defended group.