Well....you start with the safety issue and convey that the train will be moving along at 200 mph. You go and spend $3-billion to build some network from LA (central) to Vegas. In the end, with safety problem values....the $3-billion will stretch into $6-billion.
Then one day....you have one single derailment, with forty dead folks and three-hundred seriously wounded folks. By the time you reach a 'cause'.....the legal challenges come up, and the rail folks need to cough up half-a-billion to make everyone go away 'happy'.
So then the problem is....what if there is a second derailment?
At this point, riders will drop drastically (like the use of the Hindenburg), and the potential of profits fall like a rock.
A year or two with only 20-percent of the seats filled for each trip....the states are now offering massive discounts to get people back, and the safety factor continues to be the problem.
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The way I heard it, the Colorado River is going dry.
Apparently, new construction around Las Vegas ('the meadows') is curtailed until new sources of drinking water are available.
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Apparently, as Colorado River reservoirs continue to recede into dusty pits, a lot of boaters are disappointed.
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So... let's invest a few days worth of the Ukraine into a way to get from the capital of Latin America to a dead desert?
I suspect treachery!
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