With all the money going into the Ukraine war and other ventures since Putin came to power, I imagine there’s a lot of stuff he could’ve done to make the world a better place and Russia a formidable world power.

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      The Soviet space program only got mostly privatized and destroyed. It’s not easy to run a space program when your entire industrial base just had the copper stripped out of the walls.

      It’s actually a major accomplishment that they were able to contribute modules to the ISS in the 2000s.