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Re:It’s Time to Repeal the Jones Act by lazide on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @12:49PM (#33264794)
Quite true! Geographically, keep in mind it would be trivial to blockade South Korea from China, and South Korea has been invaded by a Chinese Puppet state in the somewhat recent past (North Korea), with which they are still technically at war.

It’s no ship yard in Seattle.

Re:It’s Time to Repeal the Jones Act by yamtaddle on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:14PM (#33265877)
You can't count on industry in any state that's going to be a direct war participant and on or, these days, even kinda-close to, the front lines, anyway. Look at Ukraine, and they're arguably winning. That's how fucked-up your production capacity gets when you're more-or-less successfully repelling an invasion, let alone when you're plainly losing. The other day they had, what, 30% of their energy infrastructure damaged, by their own government's admission? And the only reason it hadn't happened sooner seems to be that Russia just hadn't decided to do it yet (not to overstate Russia's advantage—part of why they hadn't done it yet was probably that they have limited ability to restock their own weapons, so preferred to hold such weapons in reserve for a time). Plus all the bombed or captured factories, difficulty and danger getting inputs and workers to any surviving factories, et c.