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> a Trump-like figure, spouting vapid promises of greatness Can't pinpoint who you are referring to. Gemini thinks Yeltsin? But neither it nor I remember any "

• perihelions 1y ago
  Putin made a number of incredibly grandiose promises about Russia's progress in space (and in technology and engineering generally), as he dismantled and looted Roscosmos over the past twenty years—gifting away its wealth to oligarch allies. The Russian space capability is a shadow of its former self, barely able to maintain its old Soviet rocket production. Their ISS modules, if you've been following, are quite literally falling apart from negligence—leaking toxic gases and such. Here's a generic example of the flavor of Russia's non-credible space propaganda—stuff their government says, like Trump, that's an enormous lie, that everyone knows is a lie: https://web.archive.org/web/20120204103104/http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/02-02-2012/120400-russia_moon-0/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120204103104/http://english.pr... (Pravda: "Russia to send cosmonauts to the Moon this decade" (2012))
  • lostmsu 1y ago
    To be fair, Russian space stagnated since before him. The current fallout is caused by somebody actually bothering to move forward.
• asacrowflies 1y ago
  Putin you idiot.