just tell him you're already in love with someone else and offer to introduce him to someone else. then tell your dad that you arent interested in set ups at this time.
they dont have the demographics or the arable land or the warm water ports or the geography or the higher education or the culture, etc. Russians are not the original Rus people, these are vikings.
i wonder what price point you could hit with 1950's technology, but without the thick steel.. then i wonder about loss of efficiency and safety. im sure someone know of a brand threading this needle in like brazil or somewhere already.
to be fair what they've built is amazing, and good enough for 80-90% of the time. but it needs to be 99.9999% of the time and thats not this year. they will release something of course, and rely on remote human intervention, and many people will die. but the media wont mention it and the statistics will be buried, and when it rains or is foggy or too hot etc millions will all be stranded.
just tell him you're already in love with someone else and offer to introduce him to someone else. then tell your dad that you arent interested in set ups at this time.