Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.

Oh yeah.

Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular

audiobook titles, including Romantasy, autobiographies, true crime, and more.

Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their

flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start

listening. Terms apply. I'm John Batchezer. is a lot of dual political futures.

A subscription site I recommend.

And she has written most recently about Abkhazia, a small piece of the story,

but a major component if you're going to realize the dream

of connecting Northern Europe,

that's Moscow and Scandinavia, by rail to China.

And a piece of that story comes down the Black Sea coast, Russia, threw up Kasia,

connecting, I think it's about 60, about 60 miles, that have broken rail that reached the railhead in Georgia, across Georgia,

and then it can go north and south in Baku, where the rail station is ready.

It can then go around the Caspian Sea Basin, reaching Iran, reaching into Central Asia,

cross Central Asia and reach China.

You see how much this advantages, how many countries it advantages.

And Abkhazia is aware of this, and it's aware that it would prosper,

but at the same time there's reluctance.

Katerina, have I said all that correctly, that the big dream here is to connect China with Russia and Europe?

Yes, I think this is it.

...