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Ronan Wordsworth is here, an analyst for geopolitical futures of subscriptionscription side, I highly recommend

because it has really cool visionary ideas

such as the Russians in Africa, in Central and Western Africa, a railroad.

There's something Victorian empire about this, Ronan.

What is the proposed railroad and who's

going to build it to the best of our knowledge. Thank you.

So this was a report just came out last week from Russian sources.

Basically, I saw the map there that they're proposing to build a new railway from the coast of Libya,

basically near Tripoli, down south into Indonesia, and then split in Asia where it goes westwards towards Mali, Burkina Faso, and then

East and Southeast towards Sudan, Chad, and Central African Republic. It seems like this is a good way of logistically connecting

a lot of these Russian friendly countries and then giving them access to the open seas to be able

to export a lot of the raw materials that are being

extracted from the countries. I think that's become even more important following the

ongoing civil war in Sudan because I think there's reports

that before the civil war those significant flows especially from Libya

Sudan and Central African Republic out through the port of Sudan.

Obviously that is almost logistically impossible at the moment while there's a civil war continuing.

This gives them a much bigger, much grander idea and vision of how that region will look and be able to connect them to the open seas.

As who's building it, there's like a few contractors that were mentioned in the article.

I don't know how seriously or how far along this idea has been developed.

For sure, it would be reasonably easy to build since it's a lot of

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