Recent content by Emperor Tippy

Yup. It lost power at exactly the wrong time and in exactly the wrong place. It theoretically could have been deliberate but almost certainly wasn't. The most likely explanation is that the fuel was bad as that has been a known problem in shipping for a while as the switch to low sulfur fuels...

The issue with that Q&A is that the people talking are industry experts who have internalized the standard/normal processes for doing things. Business as usual? You are looking at months to years to get things back up and running. But then you have the actual realities. This is a Presidential...

They are insured all the way to their maximum possible liability. Liability is also limited by multiple treaties. Maritime law is its whole own thing and has fairly substantial differences to most law people more used to. Total hit to the insurance company will likely be in the single digit...

It won't be that long. The port of Baltimore is way too important to both the state of Maryland and the US as a whole. Basically the instant that the S&R operation is over the investigators will pull the VDR log and start clearing. The shipping channels will be cleared on what is essentially a...

There will be no pointless, idiotic, speculation at this point. If you want to claim terrorism or ascribe fault or the like then you better have solid, credible, sources to back that claim and link them/provide them in the post you first make the claim. Failure will see you, at a minimum, banned...

The Iran money was letting a foreign bank unfreeze an Iranian account. It wasn't straight up giving Iran money. The money to Hamas was first (poorly) laundered through the UN. And Congress isn't going to be approving any more funds for UNRWA.

Zeihan is ignoring the domestic political realities in the US. If Trump is elected then the US position will become very solid support for Israel and fuck the Palestinians hard. The dock ends the next day and the whole political calculus of the ME changes. If Biden tries to end the...

First carefully read through your actual policy. It might, or might not, cover you in whatever circumstances you are likely to face. But yeah, if you want insurance that is actually generally effective you should look at a broader legal insurance policy. EDIT: Home - CCW Safe is different to...

Essentially all firearms insurance has a clause that they won't cover illegal use of force. If you are charged with a crime then you insurance may (check your policy) cover your legal fees AFTER you are found not guilty and will then (again check your policy) cover any civil judgement against...

Relatively minimal in this case basically means the President issuing orders and various US military platforms doing relatively routine things to carry those orders out. Fundamentally, a modern nation requires electricity. It requires telecommunications. It requires gasoline and diesel. It...

Sure, and that state of affairs persists because those politicians are operating with different considerations. Yes, the US could end Iran (for example) as an entity tomorrow with a relatively minimal effort and with relatively minimal physical risks to the US or its citizens. Doing so would...

The US military doesn't need (or desire) US citizens dying for it. That is kinda the point. The US has spent decades and trillions of dollars focusing its efforts on locating, targeting, and destroying everything necessary for another nation to survive (much less fight a war) on day one from...

Anyone who thought Iraq/Afghanistan was a real war in any way was/is a fucking idiot. Those were occupations/nation building done under incredibly restrictive rules of engagement and with minimal to no non-military investment. Ukraine likewise isn't a "real war" in many respects. Ukraine's...

The UK has repeatedly fucked itself over and proven, repeatedly, that it is unwilling to face reality. With Brexit the UK should have tied itself hard to the US and done everything it could to fuck over the EU, doing so would have gotten it a NAFTA style trade deal with the US and at least...

Nope, the US would have failed hard if it hadn't expanded west. What has made the US a success unparalleled in human history is that it conquered an entire continent and then successfully integrated its new colonial empire into the whole to the point where the colonies became essentially...