[neverdem]

And they were accidentally labelled fireworks? Just like Fast and Furious was a botched operation? Sure, sure, sure...

[thesaleboat]

Yesterday it was said that they were being shipped to South Korea?!

[yobid]

I met a German girl from England who went school in France and we danced the Mississippi at a Alpa Cappa dance.

I wasn’t me.

[Portcall24]

The o had directed they be shipped to China so Customs could find out where they eventually were headed. ATF had advocated sending them directly to the drug cartel in Mexico but were overruled.

[DoughtyOne]

And the beat goes on...

How did these get out of our inventory in the first place?

[Red Badger]

Sounds like a regular fun day at the UN.....................None dare call it treason.......................

[End Times Sentinel]

This story just doesn’t make any sense.

A shipping container doesn’t have a description of what’s inside of it on the outside.

Obviously, the shipping company knows who the shipper, consingee and notify party is. Vessels aren’t just loaded with unknown containers and then discharge them wherever.

The author’s fascination with the vessel’s flag, crew, owner, and ports of lading and unlading indicates to me that he’s not very familiar with maritime cargo.

[neverdem]

I first confused guanidine with guanine, the nucleic acid. Guanidine is derived from guano. More better lining through chemistry!

[Carry_Okie]

Hell, that cat was probably out of the bag when the Israelis sold Patriot technology to the Chinese when Clinton was President.

It's all about "sharing." It's good to "share," isn't it?

[null and void]

a Ukrainian crew, which ended up spending a good deal of time answering questions from stern officials with lots of vowels in their names.

Had only the crew been Kosavar. They could have redistributed the vowels, just to be fair...

[GeronL]

This story keeps changing.

South Korea is not China.

Which is it?

[Lazamataz]

Germans Using Danes to Ship US Missiles to China On British Vessel Crewed By Ukrainians Caught By Finns

... but I still blame the French.

[DTogo]

Iran gets a drone and China gets Patriot missiles.

Merry Kwanza from Mordor-on-the-Potomac!

[wolfcreek]

“unless you get your kicks by shooting down your neighbor’s fireworks on the Fourth of July.”

That would be SOOO cool!

[Elsie]

To add to the international confusion, the Thor Liberty sailed out of Germany under a British flag and has a Ukrainian crew, which ended up spending a good deal of time answering questions from stern officials with lots of vowels in their names.

And what the bow officials proceded to do is now the subject of a United Nation inquiry.

[Tainan]

A post script to the story is that the missiles were being sent to South Korea as a legitimate arms deal from the German gov't.

I like John Hayward, and I think he's a darn good writer, but this story has more to it than might first be apparent.

[rmlew]

Tell me this is a joke about globalism or free trade, and I missed the punch line.

[rmlew]

Tell me this is a joke about globalism or free trade, and I missed the punch line.

[Brass Lamp]

I guess that the technology transfers which occurred under Clinton were not convenient enough for the Chinese, who want their Christmas gifts delivered preassembled this year. Our President obeys the will of his masters. Thankfully the Finns are always confounding the plans of communists

This IS treason.