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If the guy wrote an article, just link to an article 🤷‍♀️

Shipping is throughput-bound, not latency-bound by the sheer logistics of cost. A high cost floor inherently limits the flexibility you have in delivering equipment. The cost of ocean freight is generally what people care about (especially with the delays in imports, customs, blah blah blah), not the latency. If people cared about latency, their product would usually be suitable for air freight (e.g. the iPhone).

Plus, most of the new corridor is over ocean freight anyway and requires the slow and vulnerable process of unloading in UAE and loading again when entering the Mediterranean.

I think we're at a bit of an impasse then. I don't think it makes sense to bleed men and defectors for morale (because, y'know, people dying is bad for morale), but maybe the Ukrainian propaganda machine is more powerful than I am.

My point is that the West has sat behind the idea that every single new weapon they send to Ukraine will be a GAME CHANGER and lead to the COLLAPSE OF RUSSIAN LINES. Nothing has done so so far, so why should the F-16 be any different? The Patriot was supposed to help Ukraine maintain air superiority. Western tanks were supposed to outclass Russian ones. The Bradley, through it's rich operational history, was supposed to completely outmaneuver Russian forces. Yet... Nothing.

So the US cares so little for it's relationship with Vietnam that it can't be bothered to find an intern they can put on their pants?

His Twitter page speaks for the US government (@POTUS). This reflects poorly on the US, if nothing else.

This is a massive diplomatic error from the US government. In fact, it came from the US government Twitter handle @POTUS. Just because an aide made the issue doesn't make this issue not reflect poorly on the US.

The article in question: ❓

Then maybe link the article itself? It's not that hard, guys.

The actions such as... Giving them additional points on gaokao? Interest free business loans? Exemption from family planning policy? The horror.

Ah yes, because the New Yorker is a completely unbiased source of information instead of (as the name might suggest) a newspaper targeted at the New York elite.

How is rail ever going to be cost-competitive with ocean freight? Even considering Suez transit costs of $7-10/ton, the most efficient railroads in the world achieve 4.4c/ton-mile, or about $68 per ton on the proposed route plus the cost in both time/money and latency/throughput of being dependent on two massive ports for loading and unloading.

IMEC aims to connect Middle Eastern oil to European and Indian markets and European/Indian products to the Middle Eastern market. That's about all it's good for.

Which, of course, condones terrorism because Ukrainians are white and Muslims are not.