Purposely blocking the canal to stop something else from getting through. Maybe impacting the Group Arabian Sea Exercise 21 US 5th Fleet that is nearby.
The ship perhaps was known smuggling ship, and purpose was to expose it by forcing them to remove containers to free themselves. We'll know soon enough on this one.
As a signal to start something...this event would definitely make the news, and may have been a trigger.
Drunk/negligent/reckless captain.
Faulty equipment, or as claimed, the wind (very unlikely)
Ok- I get your sarcasm, but for a more realistic stab at it - maybe the military 'wargamed' it out that, after Biden was given the win, our enemies would then assume it was a good time for safe passage to place nukes in the US offshore areas and ports. Also, they would assume how the nukes would come to US and then be prepared to intercept. Would be curious to know how frequently Evergreen goes thru that canal or if it was placed outside the canal to be ready to jump in line and form a block, when needed. The reason these theories abound is that a mild wind is not going to push a fully laden cargo ship off course enough to ground itself in a well known shipping lane.
Seems they're stuck in the Suez Cabal
It was an attempted pun...
But, as for "why", one of the following reasons.
Purposely blocking the canal to stop something else from getting through. Maybe impacting the Group Arabian Sea Exercise 21 US 5th Fleet that is nearby.
The ship perhaps was known smuggling ship, and purpose was to expose it by forcing them to remove containers to free themselves. We'll know soon enough on this one.
As a signal to start something...this event would definitely make the news, and may have been a trigger.
Drunk/negligent/reckless captain.
Faulty equipment, or as claimed, the wind (very unlikely)
It was an 'attempt and score' of a pun.
Ok- I get your sarcasm, but for a more realistic stab at it - maybe the military 'wargamed' it out that, after Biden was given the win, our enemies would then assume it was a good time for safe passage to place nukes in the US offshore areas and ports. Also, they would assume how the nukes would come to US and then be prepared to intercept. Would be curious to know how frequently Evergreen goes thru that canal or if it was placed outside the canal to be ready to jump in line and form a block, when needed. The reason these theories abound is that a mild wind is not going to push a fully laden cargo ship off course enough to ground itself in a well known shipping lane.