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Better Cold War option:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

The ship’s a total loss, but Egypt also gets a new lake!



You know there's probably someone doing the cost-benefit analysis right now to see if just digging a new canal channel around the ship would be faster and cheaper than removing it.



I see you like to blast things hah. That canal was built in 10 years.


Peter Thiel would ask "ok, but how would build it in 6 months?"


The canal expansion in 2014 was actually completed in one year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal_Area_Development_Pr...


Those passing through the area afterwards might not like that idea.




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