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I think the joke is your public transport.
What does that have to do with anything? Or is it just a "haha America bad"?
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Cool, question remains
If there was a functioning public transport, they could just, you know, meet.
You realize that distance is 4,700km, the distance between Lisbon and Moscow. It takes 3 days by train without a stopover. Public transportation doesn't make meetings any easier.
Yes, and I've personally taken three-day same-country trains before, back when it was the cheaper option. And guess what, non-private planes are also public transport.
No country on Earth has public transportation that would make a cross-continent relationship feasible.
No single country sure, but uh...