I concur and it’s playing against current politicians in the EU. But, we don’t have enough air defenses, we still don’t produce enough ammo to arm those that defend our eastern side. So we are, for the time being , limited in our actions and can only issue strongly worded letters while getting those things to move.

The humiliation of it isn’t lost on many European voters, I’m just afraid their rightfull anger at the situation will get channelled by those that obey US and Russian interests.

Yeah, but from A to B the plane does not use man made infrastructure and planes are for longer journeys than typical trains. Two airports cost a lot less than the constant maintenance of hundreds of miles of tracks, signaling, crossings, bridges and tunnels, forest overgrowth etc. plus the road infrastructure needed to maintain all parts of the train track corridor, even if it’s a dirt road, it needs minimum maintenance.