Originally Posted by
ORAC
MELTED TRACK: MAKS 22 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA has posted this video of damage to the rail bed, tracks and underlayment of the railway of the Kerch Straits bridge. The heat of burning tank cars has, in places, malformed the track; it's also likely to have weakened the bridge itself...
That's like showing burned carpet in a house fire.
Tracks gone, so what? They're repairable in a couple of days. There's no evidence of serious damage (I didn't say no damage) to the underlying structure but even if there was does anyone really suppose the sickeningly wimpish Western H & S rules for running trains across it would apply in Russia even it was remotely possible; as if crews would have a choice when assigned to that duty and find out the hard way if the bridge could take it?
We still haven't got the message yet, have we?
The message of how Russia wages war?
I suspect we're about to find out.
Nuc?
Nah.
Gas.