The Biden administration is slinking back to Putin’s Russia at great risk to America’s national security for help returning NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Russian cosmonauts will also travel on new American SpaceX rockets per the agreement.
The move represents a reversal of attempts to isolate Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. “We estimate that we will cut off more than half of Russia’s high-tech imports, and it will strike a blow to their ability to continue to modernize their military. It will degrade their aerospace industry, including their space program,” President Biden previously said of U.S. sanctions announced in February, specifically vowing the move would not spare Russia’s space agency. The about-face on space cooperation is representative of the lack of resolve and frequent inconsistencies that plague the Biden administration’s general approach to governance.
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