Posted on 01/29/2022 4:23:37 AM PST by Kaslin
Great; are we still using the Russians to ferry our people?
If we don’t, who sets the Uber rates for these trips by the “private American corporation”?
Um, you are forgetting about SpaceX and the fact they are now sending our astronauts to the ISS. We no longer rely on the Rooskies for space flight.
In fact, SpaceX has decimated the Russian space industry so bad that the Russians are now discontinuing building Proton rockets
What is the price for SpaceX flights? Who pays it?
You a NeoCon because you sure sound like one.
Yeah, really it’s a flim flam game they are all apart of.
Any of the dims are not any less pro war than the Republicans. Possibly they are more pro war..depending on how much it benefits them personally.
Just like the left is anymore pro environment.
Many of the lead dims own multiple non green mansions
Some own private jets.
Which I really don’t care if they do but if they restrict and regulate everyone else then it’s a problem.
Because we still have an agreement with Russia to ferry our astronauts. NASA is proposing a new agreement where Roscosmos(Russian Nasa) is not paid to fly one of our astronauts but will swap seats on a US commercial vehicle with those on Soyuz spacecraft.
If we don’t, who sets the Uber rates for these trips by the “private American corporation”?
Those "private American corporation” will compete for the NASA business. Russians had a monopoly, which is why since 2006, NASA has paid Roscosmos some $4 billion for more than 70 Soyuz seats
The biggest morons in the world are in politics. It’s the only way they could have an impact.
If believing a democracy(Ukraine)has the right to defend itself from invasion by Putin, is being a "NeoCon", so be it. It was Trump, I guess a "Neocon" by your definition who first sent Ukraine weapons, javelin anti-tank missiles.
No one is arguing Ukraine’s right to defend itself. The contention here are the war mongers in the US who are itching to go to war with Russia over Ukraine.
No, ya Town Scrawl dolt, they're not. Remember Clinton's pro-jihadist war in the Balkans? That was Wag the Dog. This is virtual Wag the Dog. The only actual warmonger is Vlad the Imploder.
The scenario I’ve been seeing is Russia invades and gets bogged down in urban warfare. The US and NATO counter strike and wit Russia seeing a prolonged war launches tactical nukes against nato taking out HQ and all of Brussels. The US the jacks their missiles. Once you give the order, the wars over.
“Which I really don’t care if they do but if they restrict and regulate everyone else then it’s a problem.”
If they create wars for absolutely no good reason I care a LOT. The tax dollars spent, the lives lost...
Ditto war.
NATO has bailed on Joe.
He says he’ll go it alone…hopefully, that means him and possibly his wife, because I think the AMerican people have no interest in sending troops to Ukraine (the Ukrainians don’t want them anyway) or anywhere in Eastern Europe for Joe’s fantasy war.
Even the Russians don’t want this one. Which of course Joe knew before he started threatening them.
Yep...
Cost of Russians flying Americans to ISS: 90 mil per person
Cost of SpaceX flying to ISS: 55 mil per person
Not having to pay the Russians: Priceless.
They’re trying to play the same brinksmanship game with Putin that Trump played with Rocket Man. Putin will eat them for lunch. Only thing that would stop him would be a nuclear war. Stupid is as stupid does. Mushroom clouds and phonograph playing “We’ll Meet Again” is definitive evidence of stupid.
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