Ukrainian grain will be transported through Izmail in 70-ton railroad hopper cars, 50 of which have been provided to Ukraine by the USAID project, within the framework of the economic support program for Ukraine

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1. Anyone know if Western 1435mm tracks are making any inroads into Ukraine yet?

2. SLAVA 70 TON HOPPER CARS.

   LFG.

3. So Load at Izmail port, cross the river to the Romanian side, then out into the Black sea. As Romania’s international waters start immediately at the Sulina Dyke, so once the grain is on the ships, they would effectively be in NATO waters right through the Bosporus. I wonder what the orcs will try to do, if anything.

4. Is this even possible to deliver all the ukrainian grain by train?

   I mean Ukraine exports around 11 million tons of grain a year. One single train can carry only 700 tons. Which means, that 15’700 trains are needed to transport the whole grain. This sounds Impossible.

5. Ukraine 2022: We need ammo, not a ride.

   Ukraine 2023: Okay we still need ammo but also a ride, for our grain.

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   But seriously in order to work, it will require someone to donate massive amounts of heavy transport capacity, and neighbors who are prepared to work together to ensure that each leg of the transport chain goes smoothly.

   In other words Ukraine will have needed to spend years developing friendships with many other nations near and far in case a day ever came when — *oh wait that’s what they did.*

   Contrast with Russia, which spent 20+ years systematically fucking itself over diplomatically to the point that their closest natural allies hate them passionately and they are stuck with bullshit promises of support from tiktok armies that never materialize, plus some Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

   Which need to go home soon because their own government is about to be toppled by a huge fuckoff army of angry teenage girls.

   Today both Ukraine and Russia reap the respective fruits of what each country sowed.

6. Great news!