O's policies have now grounded the US

[DrLeftover]

13 May 2014

Russia is to deny the US future use of the International Space Station beyond 2020 and will also bar its rocket engines from launching US military satellites as it hits back at American sanctions imposed over Ukraine crisis.

Russia’s deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced a series of punitive measures on Tuesday against the US in response to sanctions imposed after Russia annexed Crimea.

The two countries have long cooperated closely on space exploration despite their clashes in foreign policy.

The Space Station is manned by both American and Russian crew, but the only way to reach it is by using Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/10828964/Russia-to-ban-US-from-using-Space-Station-over-Ukraine-sanctions.html


The US still has some launch capability. But not on the scale needed to maintain a significant presence.

 

[Evil Eye]

Everyone always gets very excited over military might - big guns; big tanks; big planes - but I must say, this is a far more interesting sort of warfare.

 

[DrLeftover]

Everyone always gets very excited over military might - big guns; big tanks; big planes - but I must say, this is a far more interesting sort of warfare.

or lack thereof.