To put this into perspective, China's high-speed rail project in Indonesia connecting Jakarta and Bandung (a distance of 143 km) at a speed of 350 km/h was completed in just four months at total cost of $7.3 billion.
This line has seen an impressive number of passengers, with approximately 2 million people utilizing the service.
I agree that if $100 billion is going to be wasted regardless, I would rather have SOME of that money go towards high speed rail and the rest go to oligarchs’ pockets, rather than 60% of it going to weapons and 40% of it going to oligarchs’ pockets.
Exactly, if we’re gonna line oligarchs pockets regardless I’d rather it be while while building trains than bombs