1/ "Tech of Science"
A few days ago something HISTORIC and not yet widely appreciated happened 460km/285 mi away from YOU...
At the end of the Cold War in 1998 US + Russia teamed up on the ISS (international space station) after 40 years of fiercely competing in a Space Race...
A few days ago something HISTORIC and not yet widely appreciated happened 460km/285 mi away from YOU...
At the end of the Cold War in 1998 US + Russia teamed up on the ISS (international space station) after 40 years of fiercely competing in a Space Race...
2/ A few days ago on the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin (Russian) to be the 1st in space...
..Putin symbolically gave a speech + rallied Russia to "maintain its status as one of the leading SPACE powers"
And announced Russia pulling out of the ISS by the next 4 years to...
..Putin symbolically gave a speech + rallied Russia to "maintain its status as one of the leading SPACE powers"
And announced Russia pulling out of the ISS by the next 4 years to...
3/ ...🇷🇺partner with CHINA 🇨🇳
to team on space including a lunar base
🚀🌑(on the moon or orbiting it)
after rejecting NASA🇺🇸 offer to team on this exact topic.
to team on space including a lunar base
🚀🌑(on the moon or orbiting it)
after rejecting NASA🇺🇸 offer to team on this exact topic.
4/ Russia x China have turned to each other increasing trade + collaboration with each other as US sanctions against Russia' seizure of Crimea + China abuses have accelerated... 
5/ And Russia which once dominated SPACE launches and then lost (as its top scientists fled to US + funding plummeted as its economy collapsed from total failure of communism) is aiming to be as ascendant again as China has become.
6/ Meanwhile the US-
distracted from international affairs + rising powers who can cast a shadow before its felt
-turns on itself with domestic disunity as 1/2 the country has disdain or disgust for the other; fueling tribal, identity, culture fires🔥
(no doubt fanned by 🇨🇳🇷🇺)
distracted from international affairs + rising powers who can cast a shadow before its felt
-turns on itself with domestic disunity as 1/2 the country has disdain or disgust for the other; fueling tribal, identity, culture fires🔥
(no doubt fanned by 🇨🇳🇷🇺)
7/ Wish it were not so that we have observable
CONFLICT + COMPETITORS seeking
to get stronger + see U.S. weaker
Wish we instead had COOPERATIONS and they agreed on human rights + individual freedoms + avoided censorship, suppression, detaining dissidents, authoritarian control
CONFLICT + COMPETITORS seeking
to get stronger + see U.S. weaker
Wish we instead had COOPERATIONS and they agreed on human rights + individual freedoms + avoided censorship, suppression, detaining dissidents, authoritarian control
9/ Cooperation...Competition...Cooperation....Competition.
Deception...Detection...Deception...Detection.
"Evolving"
Deception...Detection...Deception...Detection.
"Evolving"
10/ Here is Putin speech...punctuated by a drone display of rocketry...
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