I don't understand you. The content within the Great Firewall is a subset of the Internet, at least from the Chinese perspective, as I don't know what I can't s

I don't understand you. The content within the Great Firewall is a subset of the Internet, at least from the Chinese perspective, as I don't know what I can't see from the outside where I am. I also don't know what you can't see outside of it, but I assume that the censorship is limited to certain political topics and probably adult content. Russia has not been cut off from the internet. It is suffering highly focused DDoS attacks which are not originating due to any type of sanction or new law, or as a protest measure from companies. These are actions of individual hackers or hacker groups. Compared to the actions of REvil or Conti, these are absolutely harmless. The western ideal of the internet is very well described in that rejection letter, which might as well become a historical document in what it is trying to express. Now, what commercial network providers decide to route or not, is a very different story. But, from the looks of it, no routes have been dropped, and should that happen, peering agreements could provide workarounds, even around countries. It's usually the non-western countries which are implementing blocking so that their citizens have a restricted access, not the other way around. You seem to confuse the internet with the global market. From the perspective of the global markets' current sanctions, I can obviously understand your concern and motivation to be prepared in the future. But we are also concerned, because the harm goes both ways. It's an almost unnecessary recession which will affect many areas, where specially spaceflight-related decisions are already being very noticeable events, since they are so highly dependent on collaboration. Collaboration which was successful, until now. The Minsk Agreement could have been implemented within one or two years, the will to do so was there.