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A better way to avoid conflict would be an international ban on military alliances not railway gauges. The notion that any great power would be curtailed from

• jacobolus 4y ago
  Whether Russia should be considered a “great power” at this point is questionable. (Though they are surely still a nuclear-weapons-armed state.) The Ukraine war has demonstrated that the Russian armed forces is barely capable of operating away from railheads. Their entire logistics system is based on rail, and they don’t have enough fuel trucks, general-purpose tactical trucks, engineering vehicles, etc. to keep their troops supplied and moving if they get too far (maybe 100–150 km at most) from the nearest railhead. They start running out of food, fuel, and ammo, and quickly get bogged down. This late-2021 analysis was prescient: https://warontherocks.com/2021/11/feeding-the-bear-a-closer-look-at-russian-army-logistics/ https://warontherocks.com/2021/11/feeding-the-bear-a-closer-...
  • hinkley 4y ago
    There's a theory that the West is currently eating itself. There's a theory that the Russians are behind it. There's a separate theory that Zuckerberg is Nero, and a third theory that both are true. Gorbachev purportedly asserted that Chernobyl was the linchpin of the fall of the USSR. It's hard not to look around and at least be... concerned. Especially this week.