Do You Really Want High Speed Trains?

i'm trying to think if we actually ever put this in a, in a and the american interest in walter russell mead was doing via media. Walter has this theory that a the surest of like modern a declinism is when a elites start talking about putting high speed trains everywhere. It's such a boon doggle that it's really difficult to, you know, do they're never economical. They never break even. And so, just a thing, i's like, you now, the chinese are boasting about their high speed trains, and and a, and then, you know,. all the sort of europhilesa, and, you know

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