“Globalist”?
I happened to be speaking with some Spanish railroad construction engineers a year or so ago. Spain has quite an export market in railroad and other civil engineering projects. Ya wanna bridge? They can bridge.
A couple of the Spanish outfits were involved in the California boondoggle, threw up their hands and quit.
The thing is really a rehash of the Madrid-Barcelona AVE. Same distance, similar mountains, etc. But the US red tape and bureaucracy is on a cosmic scale.
WRT the monolithic media. Try to find info on the project that isn't cheerleading. You can scare it up, but you have to sort through the garbage meant for cattle (us).
I can believe the Spaniards threw up their hands; Cali is now more "byzantine" than Byzantium.