The Russians today think that their Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR), theoretically capable of transporting massive volumes of goods between East Asia and Europe, is an excellent way to break America’s hold on the seas. Reality disagrees: a single one of those large container ships transported more cargo than total annual TSR traffic in the entirety of calendar year 2019. Bottom line: I’ve personally long found Russian confusion amusing given their use of an 1800s playbook that has consistently failed them in the twenty-first century.
