Russia provides the only means for us to get our people back and forth to the international space station (since we shut down our shuttle program because it was killing people); this is all theater for us little people. Biden isn’t committing troops to defend Ukraine; the media just goes along with his “playing president” by saying he’s sending troops to “eastern Europe”.
The whole charade with Red China is the same; our “leaders” pretend to threaten them as they expand their control in the Pacific but as long as our store shelves are crammed with cheap lead-painted ChiCom junk you may rest assured our elites and their elites are quite friendly. Those countries bordering Red China would be best served by arranging for their own defensive alliance without the US involved; they are opposing one of our closest “allies” (though no formal treaty exists), and will get no help from us. Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, India - they’d be best suited making their own deals with each other (and don’t even tell the US government).
"Since then, a private American corporation has developed its own launch vehicle — SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule — which has drastically reduced NASA's dependency on Russia."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/business/us-russia-ukraine-iss-space-scn/index.html
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