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>. Anyway, the most probable explanation is still "space is hard". I never said it wasn't, I was just exploring the possibility. My point is that a lot of inte

>. Anyway, the most probable explanation is still "space is hard". I never said it wasn't, I was just exploring the possibility. My point is that a lot of international relations, and this includes spaceflight, works on trust. When one country is habitually lying to the world and receiving sanctions from its partners, that trust is lost. Especially since we know Russian leadership has no problem with politicizing space, namely, its sudden turn-about on RD-180 and early retirement of its part of the ISS. So we know they are willing to be petty in the world of spaceflight for completely unrelated reasons (Ukraine). Thanks for the downvotes and putting words in my mouth though.

TeMPOraL 12y ago
> When one country is habitually lying to the world and receiving sanctions from its partners, that trust is lost. Well, the magnitude of this is still debatable, once you move outside the america-centric western propaganda bubble. But still, since we're comparing those two nations, I'd like to remind you that United States Government keeps lying to everyone 'both foreign and domestic', so we have exactly equal reasons to trust the US and the Russians. Fortunately space is usually free of politics, but since you brought that up... did you know that it was NASA who first said (or likely was forced to) to Russians: "hey, we don't like what you're doing with Ukraine, so from now on, we're not going to space together"? The "sudden turn-about on" military engines and ISS prolongation on the part of Russians was merely a reaction to a completely asinine politicization of space by the US Government. So to fix your sentence, what we know is that "the United States leadership has no problem with politicizing space". But hell, of course it's the Russia's fault, Holy Freedom Loving America never does anything wrong, or stupid. Disclaimer: I'm not pro-Russian. I'm anti-stupid-prowestern-propaganda and the usual assuming that America is Good, Russia is Bad. I think we're mature enough to not base our thinking on cold war-era action movies.

TeMPOraL 12y ago

> When one country is habitually lying to the world and receiving sanctions from its partners, that trust is lost. Well, the magnitude of this is still debatable, once you move outside the america-centric western propaganda bubble. But still, since we're comparing those two nations, I'd like to remind you that United States Government keeps lying to everyone 'both foreign and domestic', so we have exactly equal reasons to trust the US and the Russians. Fortunately space is usually free of politics, but since you brought that up... did you know that it was NASA who first said (or likely was forced to) to Russians: "hey, we don't like what you're doing with Ukraine, so from now on, we're not going to space together"? The "sudden turn-about on" military engines and ISS prolongation on the part of Russians was merely a reaction to a completely asinine politicization of space by the US Government. So to fix your sentence, what we know is that "the United States leadership has no problem with politicizing space". But hell, of course it's the Russia's fault, Holy Freedom Loving America never does anything wrong, or stupid. Disclaimer: I'm not pro-Russian. I'm anti-stupid-prowestern-propaganda and the usual assuming that America is Good, Russia is Bad. I think we're mature enough to not base our thinking on cold war-era action movies.