Why are russians too lazy to build a canal in their counry?
>>220285896For what purpose? To connect Chukotka with its 50k inhabitants?
>>220285896Look at the white dots on the map, those are "mountains". Theyre like if you took a hill but made it really big and out of rock, and theyre very difficult to dig canals through.
Panama and Suez only got canals because they were enormously valuable shipping lanes that cut out the voyage around South America and Africa respectively
>>220285949AI is upscaled by 50x. The earth is actually quite flat and there are already rivers there>>220285934to facilitate trade>>220285985with ice melting, by 2050 the route from China to Europe will be going through here past Russia. They might as well start building now!
>>220286059I forgot the picture.Blue needs to be increased in width a bit, as it is natural water.Orange will require heavy digging. It is only 10km and there are no obstacles in the way.
>>220285934the building of great works is a virtue and thus it justifies itself inherently by this
>>220286059>to facilitate tradeWith fucking whomst’ve? Polar bears?
Here is my illustration that shows the Grand Strategy. The Canal will reinvigorate the Russian Far East.
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>>220285896...why ?
>>220286111That’s assuming those rivers are naturally navigable by large ships.
>>220286425Lena has the 6th largest discharge volume among all rivers of the world.
If you look at picrel, you can clearly see the potential of the Russian Far East and Siberia. In Orange are two possible canals. The one in Kamchatka can be the first, which would connect the Bering Sea with the Sea of Okhotsk, creating a lively space for development. Possible new cities are marked in purple. >>220286405to reinvigorate the Russian East. >>220286425they will be widened if necessary but most big enough already.
>>220286490>reinvigorate>implying it was ever vigorous
>Siberian River Routes were the main ways of communication in Russian Siberia before the 1730s, when roads began to be built. The rivers were also of primary importance in the process of Russian conquest and exploration of vast Siberian territories eastwards>Since the three great Siberian rivers, the Ob, the Yenisey, and the Lena all flow into the Arctic OceanIf you would take a look at the Siberian routes (purple of picrel), then you can clearly see that adding the two canals for Kolyma and Kamchatka will add all that new space in orange for navigation, creating one giant navigable block for the Russian Economy. All of Russia, from Vladivostok to St. Peterburg, to Rostov and Volgograd will become navigable. This has the added benefit of ignoring the Americans at the Bering Strait entirely for future Sino-European Shipping!The costs will be marginable, but it will finally turn Russia into an infrastucture powerhouse.
The Suez canal is 193km, and 9billion of today's money. The Panama Canal is 80km and costs 12billion today's money.The Kamchatka canal would be about 90km, with 80km of that being in an existing river.According to my estimates, we can have it done in 10 years and for about 13.5billion dollars.
>>220286481The Congo is the third largest river by discharge volume but was notoriously unnavigable because of cataracts when Europeans earnestly began exploring central Africa. It took a lot to make it more accessible.>>220286490Having to widen the river or eliminate cataracts, if there are any, significantly increases the cost of such a project.
>>220287953That’s a very good counterpoint.
>>220287953Widening isn't that expensive. The Egyptians widened + extras the entire Suez for <9 billion.
>>220286170holy shit russia superpower 2027?
>>220285896There's literally no point in this.
>>220286682You cannot move mountains. + you will need to dig up an ocean to let marine cargo ships go through this with nuclear icebreakers, because the ice there would be even thicker than in the Arctic Ocean.
>>220289036there are no mountains in the way at Kamchatka
>>220289184And there's literally no point to make a strait there without your grandplans.
>>220289286see: >>220286682 >>220286170 >>220286490it would massively increase the navigability in the region. It would be done before 2050, which is in time for the Arctic Ice to melt, boosting shipping and increasing Siberian port importance!
>>220289184And most of the rivers you've pointed out don't work for 7-8 months a year. Yeah, they were and still are important arteries, but it doesn't work.>>220289319It's all based on your dreams and not a real facts and how the arctic and permafrost is changing during the rising temperature.
>let’s invest billions of dollars into a project in a sparsely populated region that may or may not have a favorable ROI depending on whether or not climate soientists’ assinine predictions about the Polar caps melting in two more weeks are trueI thought the Dutch are supposed to be financially-minded.
>>220289372it would only cost 10 billion, maybe 15 billion. That is 2 weeks of the Russio-Ukrainian war...>>220289358I have studied it. The rivers will become very navigable and the Far East more important for Russia and the world. Russia can start by just building the Kamchatka Canal for only 10-15bill and change the Geopolitics and Russian economy forever. It would be like a grand project on the scale of the Panama, a true visionary work.
>>220289503So all of the trade could by retarded red projectory instead of the blue one?
>>220289620it would move trade along the coast instead of away from it, making the entire coastline more valuable. It is geoeconomics 101. Just like at what happened to South Africa and Argentinia when the Panama and Suez were build. Their entire development got halted despite not being the main target of the trade
>>220289685>making the entire coastline more valuable.>3 native people on tons of bears and frozen mountains with nothing>valuable economy
>>220289685This trade route existing not because it's the only traderoute. It's because auto and train routes have limited capacity. The sea transportation has much higher capacity and more cheap even with nuclear icebreakers, because of the capacity.
>>220289705>>220289756fuck you infrastructure is necessary FOR development. It needs to be there for the region to develop in the first place. It also is good for national security.
>>220285896>Why are russiansStopped reading right there
>>220289939People cannot live there. People go to live there to support infrastructure. That's how cities and towns in the Far North on the Arctic ocean shores work. Or you want to live in Okhotsk where average summer temperatures rarely go above +14C and with below zero temperatures lasting October to May? Where the record winds for Russia were located with quite often wind storms with constant wind above 40 m/s?
Autists trying not to obsess over random shit level impossible
The Dutch are truly demented ditch diggers
>>220285896The natural dutch instinct to construct large infrastructure projects based around canals and dikes
You should look at the us and come up with a new canal for it
>>220286924>13.5billion dollars.Putin decided that money is better spent on killing Ukrainians
