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Sadly it took sanctions and not gusto to fund the US space program v2.0

• enupten 12y ago
  Brace yourself for another Cold war.
  • hell-banned 12y ago
    And for trillion dollar profits, if you're luky to be in the MIC complex. Which is the force behind Euromaidan.
    • ceejayoz 12y ago
      Which one? Russian or American?
      • rational-future 12y ago
        American of course: after the advertised end of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan a new enemy was urgently needed.
        • ceejayoz 12y ago
          And yet, the equipment being used and destroyed and purchased in this "new Cold War" is almost exclusively Russian. Putin can't really fairly blame the West for invading Crimera, either.
          • trhway 12y ago
            >Putin can't really fairly blame the West for invading Crimera, either. blame? Putin can only be grateful to the Ukraine right nationalists (supported by West) who assaulted the foundational freedom of the Russian ethnic minority - the language - the very first thing after they took power in Euromaidan. While not having any real practical meaning, this assault was extremely symbolic and immediately provided popular support that Putin may have been lacking before. Crimea was basically handed over to Putin on the golden plate. It was so great for Putin that i sometimes wonder whether these right nationalists were paid Putin's agents :)
          • rational-future 12y ago
            Next March, when military budgets are decided, American taxpayers will get another 1.5 trillion bill, because Russia.
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  • cryptoz 12y ago
    I've owned http://secondcoldwar.net http://secondcoldwar.net for some time now, in anticipation of something like this. Maybe now's the time to get it going!
  • iterationx 12y ago
    Brace yourself for a hot war.
• qwerta 12y ago
  I do not think so, it will still use Russian titanium.
  • adventured 12y ago
    Fortunately there are other options: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_titanium_production http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_titanium_p...
• rgbrenner 12y ago
  This has nothing to do with the sanctions. Here's an article from 2 years ago with the same plan: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/06/20/nasa-private-us-spacecraft-could-save-agency-millions http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/06/20/nasa-private-...
• narrator 12y ago
  Peaceful competition between nations has always been beneficial to humanity.