Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country

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If Ukraine survives you can bet one of the changes they will make is shifting rail gauge to EU standard, if any, and will definitely not stick with Russian gauge.

These projects tend to take a long time.  The Baltics are still building their first lines to standard gauge.  Though to be fair, they've still been economically more integrated to Russia than to Europe in the past few years, even as EU members.

Russian gauge is annoyingly close to Standard.  Close enough that you can move the wheels in the carriages -- what Germans did in the last war.  But close enough you could not just add a third rail.  You need four rails, either as a separate track, or as gauntlet track.

--Borisoglebsk 2 is hard to say.

Try saying it with a Japanese accent: Borisogurebbusuku Tsu

I'm curious about that think tank's report because I thought it was in China's interest to remain very weakly aligned with Russia, so that they can get an Asian hegemony after Russia fucks it up.