Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: How are criminals arrested

On 6/23/2025 12:23 PM, cyclintom wrote:

On Sun Jun 22 11:03:15 2025 AMuzi  wrote:

On 6/22/2025 10:38 AM, cyclintom wrote:

On Sat Jun 21 15:12:43 2025 Catrike Ryder  wrote:

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Because they depend on the USA's military.

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One very serious problem is that most of the world's freight is moved by a very limited number of container ships so large that it takes high tides and special operations even to turn them around in the port of Oakland. Freight can easily be cut off simply by sinking 20 ships . In WW II we were building a ship a day to keep up with those being sunk.

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Uh no.
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https://www.atlas-mag.net/en/category/tags/focus/the-world-merchant-fleet

    Andrew please read these thing before you post:
  The US flag merchant ships are only 3.27% of the worlds fleet.

So what?
US ocean commercial cargo is primarily FL to Puerto Rico & US possessions and then CA to Hawaii and possessions, due to the Jones Act.
And "US Flag" carriers are even a smaller chunk than the 3.27% number. We are not a player in XL container ships. We're not even a rounding error.  Of the 55,000 commercial vessels in link above, US Flag are only about 180 hulls of all types in total. Pfffft.
https://www.bts.gov/content/number-and-size-us-flag-merchant-fleet-and-its-share-world-fleet
Oh, and your ridiculous "20 ships" fantasy mentioned nothing about US flag carriers.
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