California will spend 9 trillion dollars, 20 years, and enormous amounts of drama and still have slower trains than Spain. 

But sure make fun of siestas and lazy Europeans and so on. Getting lots done in that frantic American workday of yours? How much of it was spent stuck in traffic?

Average train speed by country:

Measuring things at @spindl.

My FID is lower than all but 52 of you.

Yes, Madrid clearly protected from aggression by Morocco and France by the US. 

Alternatively, this is cope.

BTW, I think the better flavor of American cope here is suggesting that Elon’s self-driving cars will make trains obsolete or something. 

Americans are always very proud of convoluted solutions to problems only they have and which they created themselves.

Idk, I have relatives who died in Europe during WW2. Not a great take after the 80th anniversary of Dday