[canuck_conservative]

Sanctions working here

[rxsid]

Not to worry...

Hunter Biden-linked Russian oligarchs spared in latest 500-name sanctions list

[Owen]

Items of note:

1) Russia clearly is not communist. If they were, they would not care about lost sales outside Russia, but note that these are somewhat minor since for most of the last 15 years the world has depended on Russia’s excellent launch vehicles.

2) Space is hard. Failures in space measure nothing other than space being difficult. Note Japan’s upside down lander and the US lander that wound up sideways. Space is hard. It has nothing to do with what tech you have.

3) If you are not privately owned (like most Russia companies) then your central bank can print up money and give it to you. That would be done for Roscosmos if they were not mostly private. It was certainly done for GM and most US banks from 2008 onwards. This is more important than any other single matter. The US creates bytes, Russia creates joules.

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah, just as your gender reaffirming surgery is working.

[BenLurkin]

Good thing Biden re-started the Cold War. Now the Russians will have to rebuild their economy to make it independent of Eurabia.

[Midwesterner53]

This is the country that is going to put nukes in space?

[PGR88]

"With money and equipment provided by the C.I.A., crews under General Dvoretskiy’s command began to rebuild, but underground. To avoid detection, they only worked at night and when Russian spy satellites were not overhead. Workers also parked their cars a distance away from the construction site.

In the bunker, General Dvoretskiy pointed to communications equipment and large computer servers, some of which were financed by the C.I.A. He said his teams were using the base to hack into the Russian military’s secure communications networks.

Beyond the base, the C.I.A. also oversaw a training program, carried out in two European cities, to teach Ukrainian intelligence officers how to convincingly assume fake personas and steal secrets in Russia and other countries that are adept at rooting out spies.

At the time, the future head of Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, General Budanov, was a rising star in Unit 2245. He was known for daring operations behind enemy lines and had deep ties to the C.I.A. The agency had trained him and also taken the extraordinary step of sending him for rehabilitation to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland after he was shot in the right arm during fighting in the Donbas."

NY TIMES: The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin. Feb. 25, 2024

SOOOO. I guess the Russian invasion of Ukraine WAS provoked after all.

[wildcard_redneck]

What about the Ukrainians losses on the front cuck-canuck? Why is it going west?

[aMorePerfectUnion]

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[Kazan]

And, why should anyone in North America give a damn about this development?

This far better than being low on manpower, ammo and missiles like Ukraine is.

Does Canada even have a space agency?