The money has been there for years to connect with Railway coming over and down from Russia's Siberia to Alaska in the USA:

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This has been news on the BBC, but little is said in the USA about the Railway coming over to accommodate Chinese and Russian type trains:

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You don't think all those people sent to Siberia were making socks for everyone in Russia, do you? They've been working on tunnels.