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This might be more about declining production resources for maintaining ISS's orbit than anything political. Disconnecting their modules comes at a resource cos

This might be more about declining production resources for maintaining ISS's orbit than anything political. Disconnecting their modules comes at a resource cost to them that they might not be able to afford (not just talking money), so they might just let them go dark. Not sure how well the rest of ISS can function, if at all, without the Russian modules in operation.

mariuolo 4y ago
> Not sure how well the rest of ISS can function, if at all, without the Russian modules in operation. I believe the supposedly irreplaceable function of the Russian segment is raising the station via a Progress spacecraft docked to it. Elon Musk claimed SpaceX could do likewise with a Dragon capsule, but I tend to take his statements with a grain of salt, lately.