I realized that whether the bridge will work or not (we don’t know yet as you can “grand open” a non working bridge) doesn’t even matter.
It was the “get’s things done” part in your post, that rubbed me the wrong way. Shitty dictatorships can focus resources. North Korea has supposedly managed to build nuclear ICBMs all the while they don’t have electricity and people starve. Saying “get’s thing done” sounds like a praise, but I believe there is no objective reason to praise based on some narrow propaganda stunt where all the resources were concentrated.
Sure Putin’s a dictator. I know that. But unlike our dictators in California, New York, Illinois, and etc. he can actually get something built.
The idiots in California can’t even get a choo-choo train built in over ten years of trying.