That chart is what mid-2027 looks like in visual form. Even when the shooting stops, those shipping lanes don't reopen overnight. Mines need clearing. Insurance needs recalculating. Companies like Maersk need to decide their crews are safe. The infrastructure of global trade through that strait was built over decades of confidence. It was destroyed in days. Rebuilding confidence takes longer than rebuilding ports.
Thousands of Christians attend Palm Sunday celebrations in Jerusalem against a backdrop of war by #AP
https://apnews.com/article/b9d3011ef9d6f7c1d58ecaec4568fdc0
Thousands of Christian faithful attended Palm Sunday celebrations at Jerusalem’s sacred Mount of Olives on the first day of Holy Week. Pilgrims were seen waving branches and fronds in the air. The Bible says such items were placed before Jesus’ feet during his entrance into Jerusalem where he was greeted by cheering crowds. Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre also held a service on Sunday. The celebration comes as the Israel-Hamas war rages on in Gaza. The conflict appeared to have little effect on the procession, which was similar in size to last year's.
As a suburban Chicago resident, I can't help but wonder if anyone has considered flooding the #HamasTunnels as a means of pushing the #Hamas fighters out into the open.
It's probably not a realistic idea, and I'm sure no one will even consider it (at this point, the goal seems to be "slaughter over strategy"). But water can be a powerful tool, and I can't imagine the tunnels would be as watertight as folks might think. If one part of the tunnels is near to the ocean, then they only need to find a way to connect the two-- perhaps with digging in already-siezed territory, perhaps with one of the bombs they seem to enjoy dropping on innocent people.
It's a fantastical idea I know, but I think the situation calls for new ways of thinking & new ideas, not the old way of bombing lots of innocent people in order to damage the tunnels, yard by yard.
#ChicagoFlood #ChicagoFlood1992 #Tunnels #TunnelWarfare #IsrealWar #IsrealGaza #Isreal #Gaza #Warfare
On the morning of April 13, 1992 as commuters were heading to their offices in Chicago’s Loop, fish were swimming in the basement of the Merchandise Mart. A strange flood was rising. But at street level, no one could actually see the flood. What began as a leak in a unique but mostly forgotten underground freight tunnel system became a two-week combination of comedy-of-errors and soap opera that cost almost $2 billion. Building basements were submerged, and life for some was temporarily disrupted. People and institutions were blamed, and unlikely heroes were made. In the end, the Loop dried out, but the flood was an important reminder that forgotten things – even peculiar old tunnels 40 feet below our commute – are worth paying attention to.
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