NASA Denies New Space Station Partnership With Russia

schwit1 writes NASA officials today denied they were negotiating a partnership with Russia to build a space station replacement for ISS, as suggested yesterday by the head of Russia's space program. Maybe the misunderstanding comes from NASA head Charles Bolden, who is currently in Russia. Bolden probably said some nice feel-good things to the Russians, things like "We want to keep working together," and "We will support your plans for your future space station." None of this was meant as a commitment, but the Russians might have taken them more seriously than Bolden realized.

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We forgave the Russians once...

[Karmashock]

... We will need substantive evidence of their change of character before we commit to further projects.

If the Russians are determined to be enemies of the West, then it is in our interests to see that they are as technologically regressed as possible. That means not sharing computer or rocketry technology that they can use to make weapons etc.

It is very sad. We tried so hard to be their friends. The Chinese broke with the Russians in large part because they understood the stupidity of this pointless hostility between our people's.

China has prospered from that realization. All the wealth and power that is now China's could have been Russia's. That and more. They could have remained a super power and then some. They could have been incredibly wealthy.

But they pissed it all away for nothing... just as Putin is pissing away Russia's second chance for nothing.

Whether Russia gets a third chance is entirely speculative. The Russians are profoundly pigheaded. And given that they are unlikely to even admit they're doing stupid things it is unlikely that their position can be salvaged.

What they are forcing the west to do is cut them off. Isolate them. Starve them of trade. Surround them with strong military defenses that they cannot breach... and wait until after a generation of poverty and isolation they crack.

Last time Russia gave up a big portion of their territory. The next surrender of territory will probably be in their east. Siberia etc are all likely forfeit. The US won't take these things. The west won't take them. We'll just make the Russians too weak to stop their eastern neighbors from taking it.

Hopefully whatever is left of Russia when this is concluded is wiser.