• SSJ2Marx [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 months ago

    “Privatization” but the owning company is another country’s state corporation - come to think of it, that also happened to British Rail, with big parts of the line being bought up by other European countries’ state train companies.

    This all happened pre-COVID too - most of the articles about the Belt and Road failing are about debts going bad directly as a result of COVID’s trade slowdown, so whatever the heck is going on it appears to be to be a one off at the very least.

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      7 months ago

      I never said BaR is failing. I am merely trying to parse the logic of action. And so far I am unable to

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        7 months ago

        Sorry I didn’t mean to imply you were, it’s just that almost every article I fouund talking about this was covering it from the angle of “here’s why the BAR initiative is collapsing (2023 edition)”.