A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Moscow (2017)

Re:A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Mosco... by toast0 on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:21AM (#19045328)

The port of New York and New Jersey is the third busiest United States port, and the busiest on the east coast. The United States economy basically lives on import and export of goods through sea freight. Bombing the NYC harbor also is an attack on US prestige in a way that bombing other harbors such as Los Angeles and Long Beach wouldn't be.

The US has a lot of busy ports, so maybe blockading one isn't too disruptive, but it still has strategic value. Of course, it also depends on the effectiveness of the bomb.

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Re:A KGB agent shipped a Sidewinder missile by mail to Mosco... by wahern on Thursday January 31, 2019 @09:10PM (#19051014)

Your statement made me curious. As a percentage of GDP imports and exports constitute roughly 25%:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_trade-to-GDP_ratio

That's the sixth lowest in the world. Only Pakistan, Argentina, Brazil, Sudan, and Nigeria have a lower ratio.

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