Shuttle had the capability to land unmanned from the beginning. It just happened that it flew real missions with astronauts on board, so it wasn't used.
> It's all fun and games until communists confiscate your iPhone and laptop. Could be worse, they could starve you to death or send you to Gulag, because The Great Leader wants to spread the "world revolution". Or he…
Yes, let's look at the facts. Russia invaded Ukraine, broke into Crimean parliament and held illegal referendum _after_ that. So, sanctions were not because of the referendum, but because of invasion.
> These were old stockpiles So there were WMDs. Case closed.
That's probably why one of the first oil companies started working in Iraq was Russian Lukoil?
5000+ ordnances were found: "roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs" Do you consider it "no WMD"? https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/15/356360949...
Famines in USSR were caused by Soviet politics. Period. US did sent major aid for Famine in '20s, but famines in 30's and 40's were covered up by Moscow so nobody knew about them for a while.
So, sending billions in aid (finances, food etc) is considered 'looting'? How splendid.
What's the difference between "amoral" capitalistic society and socialistic society if latter is perfectly capable of starving millions to death (see Holodomor or Great Chinese Famine) ?
So from the very first day USSR was confronting US?
Soviet Union never was on defensive side. From the very beginning they've tried to conquer most of their neighbors, they've attacked Poland together with Hitler and Finland in 1940. Even in 1945 they've tried to annex…
Shuttle had the capability to land unmanned from the beginning. It just happened that it flew real missions with astronauts on board, so it wasn't used.
> It's all fun and games until communists confiscate your iPhone and laptop. Could be worse, they could starve you to death or send you to Gulag, because The Great Leader wants to spread the "world revolution". Or he…
Yes, let's look at the facts. Russia invaded Ukraine, broke into Crimean parliament and held illegal referendum _after_ that. So, sanctions were not because of the referendum, but because of invasion.
> These were old stockpiles So there were WMDs. Case closed.
That's probably why one of the first oil companies started working in Iraq was Russian Lukoil?
5000+ ordnances were found: "roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs" Do you consider it "no WMD"? https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/15/356360949...
Famines in USSR were caused by Soviet politics. Period. US did sent major aid for Famine in '20s, but famines in 30's and 40's were covered up by Moscow so nobody knew about them for a while.
So, sending billions in aid (finances, food etc) is considered 'looting'? How splendid.
What's the difference between "amoral" capitalistic society and socialistic society if latter is perfectly capable of starving millions to death (see Holodomor or Great Chinese Famine) ?
So from the very first day USSR was confronting US?
Soviet Union never was on defensive side. From the very beginning they've tried to conquer most of their neighbors, they've attacked Poland together with Hitler and Finland in 1940. Even in 1945 they've tried to annex…