With a little help from my Friends

[AlfredJPruffock]

All the other friends are a bit strapped for cash right now. They are a bit busy solving their own financial crises too.

Ironic that a coupld of months back Russia was labeled by some on this site as the International Bully as it had the temerity to defend its people.

Perhaps Russia will now save us all.

Cue - Nicky G ...AtW

[AlfredJPruffock]

Wait - theres more -

Russia and North Korea to build shortest railroad link between Asia and Europe
Russia and North Korea have launched a joint project to restore a railroad within North Korea, which will eventually be joined with the Trans-Siberian railroad. (89 sec./3.42Mb, shows: 515)

[expat]

You know something is happening,
But you don't know what it is.
Do you, Mr Jones?

[AlfredJPruffock]

I read the news today - Oh Boy
The English Banks had just been Nationalised
A crowd of people stood and stared
Now they now how many Banks it takes
To fill the middle of Red Square

[AlfredJPruffock]

France jumps aboard Russia’s great railway revival

By Paul Betts

Published: October 7 2008 20:51 | Last updated: October 7 2008 20:51

In normal times, Alstom’s announcement that it has clinched a strategic alliance with Russia’s leading railway rolling stock manufacturer would have commanded a great deal more interest than the curt statement put out by the international news wires on Monday. But these are not normal times, with the credit crisis and collapsing stock markets overshadowing virtually everything else in the business world.

Yet, the Russian venture does deserve some attention....

[d000hg]

Agree: I've always reckoned that war is waste, and a really big one like WWII is just a step back 2 generations. Whole countries' investments down the drain to pay for stuff that blows up or gets blown up, a generation doing no productive work, huge net values of buildings destroyed, and farming land laid waste. 20 years is conservative.

But historically, isn't having a war a good way to distract people from economic/domestic issues and get them to pull together?

[expat]

But historically, isn't having a war a good way to distract people from economic/domestic issues and get them to pull together?

Yes. While actually making the mess a hundred times worse.

[Spacecadet]

But historically, isn't having a war a good way to distract people from economic/domestic issues and get them to pull together?

Yes, and it cuts down the number of unemployed