The Port Seizure Spiral
A national dockworker shutdown and emergency federal seizure of ports freeze fuel, food, and military supply chains within days.
A cascading labor breakdown shuts down major container and energy ports on both coasts. When the President orders emergency federal seizure to reopen operations, unions call for a total nationwide logistics strike and port security forces begin preparing for direct confrontation.
You are the Secretary of Transportation
The Situation Room
>Refineries warn that critical import flows for additives and spare parts will break within 72 hours.
>The Pentagon reports that overseas deployments depend on the same commercial port network now falling into paralysis.
>Governors are demanding priority access to fuel and food shipments before the trucking sector walks out too.
Internal Briefing Notes
• Modern supply chains have almost no slack once ports, rail, and trucking fail in sequence.
• Federal seizure authority may restart operations physically, but not without skilled labor willing to cross hostile picket lines.
• A logistics crisis rapidly becomes a political legitimacy crisis once shelves thin, fuel queues form, and hospitals start rationing inputs.
Escalation Window
Reveal each phase to see how the situation deteriorates.
Every hour lost compounds into empty shelves and strategic weakness. What is your operating doctrine?
Choose your response. There are no good options.
You may restart throughput, but only by risking violent clashes at critical infrastructure nodes.
You reduce confrontation risk, but the country may run short on essentials before a deal is reached.
You preserve the most vital flows, but effectively abandon the civilian economy to cascading scarcity.
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