mopedpipeline
/ˈməʊpedˌpaɪplaɪn/nounVerified NewA relay of small vehicles ferrying fuel or staples across a porous border in volumes that add up to infrastructure.
Each rider carries two jerrycans; four hundred riders a day are a pipeline with no owner to bomb and no valve to close. States tolerate what they cannot audit, calling it smuggling or commerce as convenient.
Etym. — moped + pipeline: the humblest vehicles assembled, in aggregate, into heavy industry.
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