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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: albaby1 ✶❂🐝 GOLD
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Subject: Re: The US used its own 'Dark Fleet'
Date: 06/11/26 12:25 PM
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The media and this board declared operation Freedom or whatever it was called a failure before it started. Looks like it wasn't - what nobody saw coming was the Navy has evidently deployed a fair number of autonomous warships and drones and they're using them as escorts.

But...it has been a failure. Right? Traffic through the Strait is still almost entirely blocked. Not 100% blocked, but pretty close to it. "70 ships in three weeks" is about three ships a day. Compared to normal traffic of about 150 per day. Getting 2-3% of the traffic restored means that the Straits are 97-98% blocked.

We haven't been able to force open the Strait. Because doing that requires more than taking out Zodiacs - you'd need to secure the coastline to prevent land-based drone and missile launches. Which we can't do with just escort ships.
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