Post A5dOzqN4h4dFNoXjWK by Rapeseedfarmer@poa.st
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(DIR) Post #A5bF2NywNLQbxNpAbg by StellaUmbrella@poa.st
2021-03-26T10:57:32.250246Z
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"the world's global community is so cohesive and cooperative! We can conquer anything!"They can't widen this fucking thing?
(DIR) Post #A5bOjBK8DI5CjnDYau by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-03-26T12:46:07.540080Z
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@StellaUmbrella To get earth moving equipment there on the scale necessary to go with a widening approach would take some time. Note the pictures of a large but normal sized excavator compared to the ship and the canal.
(DIR) Post #A5bQeUAeucfpeSfwI4 by StellaUmbrella@poa.st
2021-03-26T13:07:41.239292Z
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@ThatWouldBeTelling I was expecting it to be a decade long process. You know most of Boston's landmass is man-made land over water right? We do cool big stuff all the time, or at least we used to
(DIR) Post #A5bRa4WkPfZeumSzMO by hehpiller@neckbeard.xyz
2021-03-26T13:18:05.773727Z
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@StellaUmbrella Well it is 706,000ft3 of sand needs to be removed, much of it underwater
(DIR) Post #A5bT4AJ1anNZTjxeiW by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-03-26T13:34:44.426369Z
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@StellaUmbrella When I first visited Boston I was very surprised by the existence of Back Bay etc., because I only knew its geography from Revolutionary War times when the narrow neck that connected it to the mainland.Here I'm just talking about the time scale to do things. And the whole world hasn't accumulated the friction the US etc. has that makes it very hard for us to do cool big stuff anymore. For an Egyptian related example of this, see the dam upstream of them that's poised to perhaps reduce the flow of the Nile by quite a bit.
(DIR) Post #A5dOzoty9nkwpFuyW0 by Rapeseedfarmer@poa.st
2021-03-26T19:26:24.335146Z
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@ThatWouldBeTelling @StellaUmbrella the real question is why doesn't basically every Navy in the world have canal clearing equipment on standby for dealing with blockages of the world's most important geostratigic canal? If the US really is preparing for war with Iran are they seriously going to just hope Iran doesn't pull something similar? We have mine clearance vessels on standby but if Iranian special forces can hijack almost any ship and block the whole canal for weeks by turning left why would they waste money on mines?
(DIR) Post #A5dOzpImfXbc4DWnC4 by JSDorn@poa.st
2021-03-26T19:28:58.209360Z
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@Rapeseedfarmer @ThatWouldBeTelling @StellaUmbrella also brings to mind that the US has like one serious icebreaker in the entire navy and Russia has like 10, some of which are nuclear powered and all of which are much more robust than hours. If there was a conflict in the arctic of any kind we would not be prepared.
(DIR) Post #A5dOzpePN8u39He3to by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-03-27T01:15:39.166778Z
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@JSDorn @Rapeseedfarmer @StellaUmbrella Not sure the US ruling trash wants to do anything more in the Arctic than destruction of Russian assets, so our relative lack of icebreakers, no nuclear powered ones and only one serious USNavy one etc. probably doesn't matter to them.
(DIR) Post #A5dOzq0k26leGY5ti4 by JSDorn@poa.st
2021-03-27T01:41:52.061725Z
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@ThatWouldBeTelling @Rapeseedfarmer @StellaUmbrella probably not. Not that I'd mourn it personally. Increasingly the training time afforded to enlisted and officers will be focused on diversity training and sexual awareness rubbish. Weak men bring on hard times
(DIR) Post #A5dOzqN4h4dFNoXjWK by Rapeseedfarmer@poa.st
2021-03-27T03:37:05.879802Z
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@JSDorn @ThatWouldBeTelling @StellaUmbrella When I made First Class Petty Officer one of my trainings was on how to integrate trannies into opposite sex bathrooms. And if you think that's bad, it's worse. I was on submarines and I got out 5 years ago.
(DIR) Post #A5dP4rbLXzq4e8c1RY by JSDorn@poa.st
2021-03-27T10:47:52.284028Z
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@Rapeseedfarmer @StellaUmbrella @ThatWouldBeTelling this is one of the most black pilling things I've seen all year. I really wonder if we are already at paper tiger status as the hegemon
(DIR) Post #A5dZVFIv2hYZEKDBfE by ThatWouldBeTelling@poa.st
2021-03-27T13:56:15.379886Z
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@JSDorn @Rapeseedfarmer @StellaUmbrella “I really wonder if we are already at paper tiger status as the hegemon”One of my metrics is our subs, there’s a floor of competency below which you start losing them. Ditto carrier landings, see the Hultgreen-Curie Syndrome, or the Navy vs. the Air Force during the Vietnam War. And getting back to my point about icebreakers, you need only so much competence to destroy things, we’re not really trying to occupy foreign nations like previous hegemons.That sort of thing might only become an issue if an important ally was invaded and it made sense to support it with ground troops (weasel wording because a war for Taiwan might be over before that was an option). For the traditional post-WWII black pill on that, the chapter “Proud Legions” in T.R. Fehrenbach’s This Kind of War is highly recommended, and is or was required reading for at least one service’s officers at a certain point. Here’s a copy: http://space4commerce.blogspot.com/2006/05/proud-legions-by-tr-fehrenbach.html