• Sami@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    How do you get the materials in to build a pier? That should answer your questions if they are in good faith.

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      9 months ago

      The US military is building the floating pier with materials they get from the US taxpayer. If you’re trying to argue it’s a waste of tax dollars, its not.

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        9 months ago

        I’m talking about the logistics of physically bringing in the building materials

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          9 months ago

          They already have methods and resources to build temporary piers, as logistics is a crucial part of war fighting.

          A ship with the resources and egineers needed to build a temporary was basically already waiting to go when this decision was made.

          So the logistics is already a solved problem.

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            9 months ago

            A crucial part of warfighting? They are building a port purportedly to feed the people that their closest ally is deliberately starving by denying aid that Israelis have engineered to be necessary for their subsistence.

            Do you think the ships will not be docking in Israel and that nothing will be transported by land through crossings? The same crossing that Israel uses to move their armed forces, weaponry and supplies through on a daily basis. Somehow those crossings will be completely off limits for the same US military that helps Israel coordinate a lot of their military operations and logistics.

            I don’t understand how you can fail to see the absurdity of this situation. It’s been 7 weeks since they announced their plans and so far no construction has begun and a ship has had to return to the US due to a fire. Even if they do get something built, there will still be the need to operate and deliver the aid from the pier to the interior of the enclave with… trucks.

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          9 months ago

          The US military has a massive global logistics operation and spends their time training for doing things like this. Of any organization on earth they probably have the greatest capacity for building a floating pier and ensuring aid flows through it. Why are you so hung up on the logistics of building material deliveries?