And the funding for comparable spaceborne telescopes will come from where? You can't even take a ride on black budget, because there is nothing to spy on in dir

And the funding for comparable spaceborne telescopes will come from where? You can't even take a ride on black budget, because there is nothing to spy on in direction opposite from earth, and and space telescopes with parameters comparable to ground based ones are bigger than what's possible to launch with any of the perspective super-heavy launchers - and critically, would be too big for spy agencies to use against earth targets.