“ Russia is backward”
Well, then. If Russia is so backward why did we pay them millions of dollars to shoot our astronauts into space when we could not get the job done ourselves.
Does not seem so backward to me.
By the way, I’m not sure name calling does much for your argument.
Russia is defense oriented. The rockets are military products.
All that is not military is backward
The only products are weapons related resulting from catastrophic losses of people in WW II