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taxi

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9. In the digital world of today nothing is an easy fix, the genie is out of the bottle.

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #8)

Sat Apr 9, 2022, 02:29 PM

Apr 2022

With Taiwan, the Kurils, the Solomons etal, the long history of who owns what and which treaties apply is too complicated for me to figure out. As far as Taiwan though, they would have had to have weighed the risks of buying extremely complex systems, like freighters, and found benefits in going ahead with the deal. It is puzzling, and that's what a competent administration sorts out.

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Cargo ship stuck in Chesapeake Bay: New Coast Guard operation underway to free ship [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 OP

I had read that they were going to lighten the load Sherman A1 Apr 2022 #1

It's local news here, in the DC and Baltimore TV markets. mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2022 #2

All they have to do is COL Mustard Apr 2022 #3

+1 2naSalit Apr 2022 #4

Someone ought to review Evergreen Marine Corp's ships masters licenses Historic NY Apr 2022 #5

Or is it a pilot problem? COL Mustard Apr 2022 #6

Reading a post here yesterday about these ships raised the same question taxi Apr 2022 #7

I've always said with all the stuff we get from China one day it will all stop on cue Historic NY Apr 2022 #8

In the digital world of today nothing is an easy fix, the genie is out of the bottle. taxi Apr 2022 #9