nostr:npub16rsfuhv9vvn39cmrdg9s9qcq20lfqp4u8w35f8svm30dny345d7qhc2zfj dude it’s even bigger than Australia. Almost as hospitable too, at least all our coastline is good land. Australia’s also warm enough to keep diesel a liquid, dry, old, and geologically stable. We can build train lines and roads where they can’t.
nostr:npub1a0qxpztc73n47hp37wxfqt6thaakt97seu7satuv7uz65mnlq37sxu3tmr pretty sure Russia has railroad across Siberia, unless trans-siberian railway and all the movies about it were only propaganda stunts, and that they do pump oil and gas over there.
And yet, Russias GDP is only a tad higher than that of Australia's ;)
nostr:npub16rsfuhv9vvn39cmrdg9s9qcq20lfqp4u8w35f8svm30dny345d7qhc2zfj Siberia isn’t hoth dude, almost all of it partially thaws into an utter quagmire every year. They have like 3 very long rail lines, and about 15 roads that would count as a highway here, and way more people live where the real roads should be in Russia than are serviced by decent roads here. Moving stuff is expensive for them, and machines don’t like cold.