Monday, December 02, 2019
Meanwhile,
Meanwhile, in the sane part of the world, Russia and China just turned on the first natural gas pipeline from Siberia to China.
We're tangled up in endless meaningless "court" proceedings and "environmental" proceedings that delay the start of every project by 30 years, effectively canceling every project before it starts.
Russia and China are GETTING SHIT DONE, linking the Eastern Hemisphere with pipes and roads and railroads, factoring out the Western Hemisphere and Ctrl-Zing Columbus.
Irrelevant: The ceremony in the video strikes me as historically confused and anticlimactic, with old-fashioned voice commands and permissions driving a mouse click. Since the commands were obviously staged, they should have staged real hands opening a real valve.
Later: Oddly, RT got this story wrong in a way that underrates Russian capability and skill. Rick Sanchez and two correspondents all stated clearly that the public event marked the start of construction, not the end. They were discussing the potential benefits when the project is eventually done. This made me doubt the Russia Insight video, but many other sources including US media agree that the pipeline is now finished and running.
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