Odd, not really. But tonight at work there some talks about this being real easy to attack from China. Load containers on top of the ship filled with weapons and vehicles, troops underneath. They take out the longshoreman and unload the ships themselves.

Everyone unarmed in the three states that unload 65% of the states commodities? Just thinking out load here.

If my ass disappears, you know what happened. I’m drunk.

If being drunk makes you disappear, then I'm !@#&*n invisible most of the time.

No, if I disappear, it’s because I learned the plan of the new liberal order!

Being fucked up makes me think this shit up.

I think it'd make for a great book.

Problem is, even with a dozen ships, carrying supplies, equipment, and manpower, you'd still need a supply chain stateside, and once word got out, you'd have every Tom, Dick, and Harry coming out of the woodworks to take potshots at them.

They could probably take over the terminals and surrounding town, but would very quickly run out of supplies, and the local military bases would be more than adequate to repel such an invasion.

In 1940, UK needed over a million TONS of material a week, to keep up the war effort....

The OOCL Hong Kong is the largest container ship in the world right now, and can carry ~197K tons.... So, you'd need 5 ships a week..... and that was WW2 era requirements.... They won't have victory gardens, or local support/local production..

In 1940, the UK population was just short of 40 million people...

Current population of California is also just short of 40 million people, at 39.2 million...


Not saying it's impossible, but.... An EMP or neutron bomb would be much more effective.. They'd just have to wait 6 months for half our population to die and walk in and own the place... all under the guise of 'humanitarian aid'.... When you're relying on them for your food rations, how many people would shut up and comply so they have food and blankets?

You understand estimate the left running out into the streets to protect their saviors. Yes, China good. USA bad.

The above was humor.


How many Chinese programers worked on critical software here in the USA? It could be possible that there may be enough back doors and timed off switches that there is no need for a physical attack, a nuke/EMP or any hacking. Just login and a few clicks later we are FUBARed.

Look into "Special Economic Zones"

These are shipping/commerce zones in ports, established by foreign governments, to facilitate the importation of that country's goods. There are warehousing, and transportation facilities (and, IIRC, housing) all treated legally as if part of the exporting country. (much like embassies).

These are well established and equipped ready-made beach-heads.


(p.s. Mods: we need a chi-com AK firing emoji)

I think you underestimate the power of the longshore union to bring things to a halt.

Even china cannot defeat the arrogance and belligerence of the longshoremen.

Thanks to our past and mostly present senators, congress men and most of presidents they go paid to send all of the jobs over seas.
The Chinese are making money hand over fist and is buying up alot of this country and letting these asshole politicians borrow money at an alarming rate.
When they want their money they will bankrupt this country.and walk right in and take it over.
Who do you think is behind all these gun laws and ammo & reloading shortages?

Or just renegotiate their contract to include even more inflated pay and pension plus unlimited free hookers, cocaine, pills, and booze.

Long live the new CLWU (it pretty much already is anyways)

Yep...ANYONE who has ever had to interact with ILWA...especially the admin/office/terminal personnel will attest to the general arrogance and "not my problem/job" attitude.

Read up on how the longshoreman interrupted the shipment of war materials during WWII...until the U.S. government went to Lucky Luciano, while he was IN PRISON, and had to make a deal with him, to get the dock workers moving again. That's corruption.

If the "CHYNA" makes it past Idaho, MT represents "behind every blade of grass"....

It was mentioned in some of the defector literature that China wanted to take control of the coasts and by the time they did so, middle America would soon follow.

Some say a literal Red Dawn invasion is forthcoming. Yes, there is a rifle behind every blade of grass. But China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba and the rest have plenty of people they don't mind using as cannon fodder.

This shit belongs in the Tinfoil hat thread. "Economic zone beach heads? With housing?
It's a secured area for goods and are not large enough to support what is being proposed, and the "products" going there are subject to inspection.
Red dawn attack?
You guys think the US would allow hundreds/thousands of planes to just fly into our ADIZ and drop Troops?
There's a better chance of Biden being removed from office and Trump reinstated.

You Tacoma Longshoreman just keep your asses down south.