Sandhi Yudha
Well-Known Member
A little bit remarkable article.Costs of war:
Russia is about to do the most Russia thing ever with its next space station
“Russia, meanwhile, will be left to carry on the legacy of the ISS, with all its problems.”…arstechnica.com
That “thin gruel” bit at the very end is pretty great!
I also read that Russia lost a few spots in math and physics output, rolling down from 4th and 5th spot on the world stage in 2020 to 7 and 8, whichever was which, in 2025.
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So, according to Budanov, Russia now has plans to occupy the Baltic States by 2027. So basically within the next 12 months. Really weird stuff. I am going to come back to this post in a year unless I forget (just like everyone else will, I am sure).
The strike on Poland should have logically come back in 2022-23, when significant equipment and materiel deliveries to Ukraine began. It makes no sense to strike Poland now.
Reuters posted an article citing a whole of 6 US intelligences sources saying that Russia not only wants to occupy all of Ukraine, but also other part of the continent that “belonged to the former Soviet Empire”. To note, the wording is really weird, the Soviet Empire. What belonged to it? The 15 republics (Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia itself, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgiztan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan… am I forgetting anyone?) or are we talking about them heading all the way to Berlin? Regardless, seems like a disinformation campaign and a poorly worded one.
Before the plans to construct a whole new own spacestation from scratch, the Russian Orbital Station, the plan was to seperate the latest three Russian modules on the ISS (the Nauka Multi-purpose Laboratory Module, MLM; the Science and Power Module, NEM; and the Prichal Node Module, UM) and restart their life as the future Russian station.
It is just weird to have suddenly the plan to reuse the oldest modules like Zarya and Zvezda.