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Nothing is stopping them, but if they wanted to boost their PR and kick the US, thay would be a way to do it.
by MerelyMortal 5y ago
Nothing is stopping them, but if they wanted to boost their PR and kick the US, thay would be a way to do it.
- saiya-jin 5y agoRussia is in no position to have any serious arms/space race with neither US nor China. Its a poor utterly corrupt country, living just from its natural resources. Sure they could muster some messy space program, at the expense of everything else that is still semi-working in Russia including army/navy. It would be tremendously over budget, way too late and still hopelessly behind the other two. What greatness Soviet union had in space is long gone, smart folks now rather work for 10x more or simply moved to places like US or Switzerland (I sure see tons of them here in Geneva, nobody wanting to go back). If I should speculate, this was a desperate attempt to asses / show some power in the space age, when Russia is being made obsolete in it fast. Its actually not that surprising given typical russian mentality. Its irrational, outright stupid move. I just hope no more 'tests' will follow