Baltimore Bridge Bust, Strike At Heart Of US War Making Capabilities, Most Opportune, Thanks Very Much - World Peace

It now seems that this year and maybe a number of years after this one, there will be significantly less US-led aggression in the world or various other war making mischief.


All thanks to the Baltimore bridge collapse.

Fast turnover cargo ships needed for US military interventions across the world are now stuck in Baltimore.

The disaster in the Baltimore waters takes on all the features of a multidimensional event, which has a whole series of consequences that are not yet fully calculated.

Supply chain disruptions in the northeastern United States have been cited already. As was the fact that the route on top of the destroyed Francis Scott Key bridge was the second busiest hazardous materials road in the United States. In the coming years, dangerous and oversized cargo will have to be transported by other routes, including through Baltimore, which is at least unsafe.

But here's something new.

On board the container ship Dali, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), there were 56 containers with hazardous goods, some of which were damaged during the crash.

“This is 764 tons of Class 9 hazardous materials—mostly corrosive and flammable—including lithium-ion batteries,” said NTSB Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy. “I saw several containers in the water, and some were seriously damaged on the vessel itself.”

The NTSB promised a more accurate preliminary report "in 2 to 4 weeks." That is, a full report on what is currently polluting the Patapsco River will appear in about eight months.

But there is also a problem in a completely different area - military logistics. According to The War Zone, two Algol-class fast freighters, the SS Antares and the SS Denebola, are stranded in the Port of Baltimore and belong to the Ready Reserve Force, a subset of vessels within the National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) that provides rapid deployment of US military forces during foreign conflicts.

Antares and Denebola make up a quarter of all ships of this class available to the United States. Additionally, two other members of the RRF fleet, the freighters MV Cape Washington and MV Gary I. Gordon, are stranded in Baltimore. All RRF vessels remaining in Baltimore are classified as ROS-5, meaning they must be able to depart within five days of receiving the activation order.

Now it’s time for the Americans to introduce a new category for them - well, let’s say, ROS-1000.