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The idea that we need to keep wasting trillions of dollars paying off bit players in Central Asia because otherwise China will be able to exert soft power in the region (that is, waste trillions of dollars themselves) has got to be the dumbest argument for staying in Afghanistan.
It's like the chocolate and peanut butter of orientalist stereotypes—the languorous but cunning puppet masters of the Middle Kingdom will exert their enigmatic spell over this warlike mountain people forever stuck in the 7th century by funding another expensive highway project
History shows the most likely outcome of active Chinese intervention in Afghanistan would be the Taliban sacking Beijing and becoming completely Sinicized within a generation
Sometimes I feel like our great strategists have never seen a topographic or population density map of Chinapic.twitter.com/ZTsN6dVSAC
Everytime people say China is a big country too! As an argument for more trains cross country I feel like I need to slam this into people faces. Yes I love trains but it would work way better if all 300m of us lived in the northeast corridor.
The comparison is wrong, though—the countries are roughly the same size and have a similar population distribution. It's like if we had a decent rail network east of the Mississippi.pic.twitter.com/f8qvpZ75E6
If we had more people and density it would make more economic sense. I think I read a post by @alon_levy saying the only really profitable train line would be the northeast corridor.
Part of the reason for that is rail construction costs are ridiculous in the US compared to other developed countries. The fact that high speed rail is unimaginable even on the D.C.—Boston segment shows that it's not economic factors preventing us from having it.
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