What deindustrialization does to a country
What deindustrialization does to a country
Russia built the entire Kerch bridge in 3 years. China would rebuild this bridge in 3 months.
And at 10 times the price 😂
47Of course. What is the point of building infrastructure if politicians and their corporate buddies can't pocket a few billion in public tax money? Can you even imagine such madness as building a bridge at cost and on schedule? Can you even imagine your country not being ten years late and three times over budget when they build, say, an airport for their capital? I can't.
4810 times?? They wish! See how much UK rail costs compared to Chinese rail: https://youtu.be/i30ZNbG0QQ8?si=Yl71EabwWEVaIJDh
3I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Simply say the magic words in the right order "please president Xi, help us rebuild our bridge" and later of course "Biden don't, but Xi do" and presto after the immigration permits are issued you'll have a new even better bridge in 6 months, they'll even throw in a rail crossing for only a little more and no extra time. And be sure to ask about excellent deals on Chinese state rail company rolling stock while you're at it.
38Reminds me of the time the US gov. took its sweet ass time to build a bridge in Appalachia, the local mayor then wrote to the USSR asking for help.
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serves them right for keeping my country from industrializing.
its so dumb that they did it to themselves, these morons are starting to believe their own propaganda.
29It's a real shame they can't just ask the Soviet Union for help
28If something like this happens in New Orleans and damage closes the port for a considerable amount of time, the economic damage would be a black swan event. (͡•_ ͡• )
28With the Yemeni enforced blockade I was thinking about this too but with the Panama Canal and how it closing could be a massive boost for the Global South by making resource transportation very expensive and such things, but looking at it now it apparently is, or was recently, already being affected by draught losing one third of normal traffic. So I guess anything else impeding or slowing global trade in the next few months could have massive consequences when taken toghether with the other events.
15Fuggggg
Panama Canal closure followed by organizes strikes across various ports in the US combined with failing infrastructure?
Fuck it let's make it Hurricane season too. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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The bridge would already be rebuilt and operational in China
24Time to start asking whether anyone shorted Port of Baltimore stock last week.
18Explain something to me, please, because I am unfamiliar with the locale. The bridge appears to have used a solid concrete strut and steel structure. The ship struck it at (reportedly) 15 kmh. And that was enough to collapse the whole thing. But how? There was a case in USSR of a ship hitting a bridge, and while the circumstances of the crash were different, the bridge itself is much smaller, yet stands to this day.
So why did it fold so (seemingly) easily?
15That Soviet ship is 4000 tons, while this one have 115000 tons. Also from what i understand the Soviet ship hit the bridge with fairly light superstructure which got cut off. While this one here just rammed one of the central bridge support with energy enough for it to just crumble and half of the brigde fallen straight down because it lost support and the other half following soon after because losing the balance. It's clearly visible on this video, entire thing just crumpled like house of cards after the hit.
For comparison, photo of that accident in Ulyanovsk, you can clearly see the difference.
EDIT: i looked the Kuybyshev class of those ships and got a fun fact, out of 9 built, 7 are still in service and all under the old Soviet names.
29Thanks!
8I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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Burguer Americans say some shit like "anyone can build a bridge that stands, but only an engineer can build a bridge that barely stands". Cheaper is better right?
19Keep in mind that the propaganda win here isn't that the bridge didn't survive being hit by a ship. It's that the work safety conditions, and this is on record the company that ran the port or the ship, I can't remember, the work conditions were so poor and the safety so poor and people so overworked that something like this was allowed to happen. And you tie that back in with the trained derailment and the continued overworking of the proletariat.
18Well it directly hit the column, and this was a fully loaded container ship. I don't think any bridge would've survived that.
15Hmm maybe I'm underestimating the size and mass of the ship in question
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The ship is fucking
YUUUUUUUUUGE
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Yeah this is fucking pathetic. 10 years to repair one bridge? Are we trying to look like a failed state?
9As i pointed out in another comment, i for one am used to this, i saw firsthand the stunning efficiency of neoliberal capitalism in building infrastructure projects: https://www.euronews.com/2020/10/31/berlin-airport-opens-10-years-late-and-three-times-over-budget
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FAFO absolutely applies here. Outsource shit to other countries and destroying your own homegrown industry sector turns out to be a horrible idea after all.
1From the point of view of the finance sector and the stock markets it's not a horrible idea at all. What do they need industry or infrastructure for?
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