American Russian and Canadian Astronauts
Nobody likes a hypocrite. I've been saying for a couple of years now that the reason le Dauphin tanked in the public opinion polls within a year of his election is because of his hypocritical attitude towards Russia. Trudeau's first and only conversation with Putin shortly after becoming Canada's prime minister was short and not sweet "You need to get out of Ukraine" was Trudeau's hypocritical message. Trudeau probably didn't even know how hypocritical he sounded to older Canadians, who remember the Quebec Independence Crisis in the 1960's in Canada. In that crisis, Quebeccers were allowed to have a referendum--to decide for themselves whether they wanted to remain in Canada. Luckily for Canada, they chose, by a razor thin margin, to stay. Now, the ethnically Russian Crimeans also held a referendum to decide whether they wanted to stay in Ukraine, which had removed a Ukrainian pro Russian leader by a violent coup, or return to Russia...where their culture and language rights would be respected. The Crimeans, by a vote of over 90%, decided to return to Russia. The "West", including Trudeau, do not recognize the Crimeans' right to decide their future. How hypocritical of Justin--when his own father led the "Non" forces in the Quebec Referendum--which was recognized. Such hypocrisy is so disgusting and so "in your face" that it totally turned off average Canadians. That, along with Trudeau's constant "virtue signaling" and arrogance is why he is now political "toast".
Canadians are reminded of Trudeau's hypocrisy every time they read the newspaper or watch the news. Here is an article about Canada's space program that appeared today on the CBC website. Please read and I will have more comments to follow:
From the CBC
"...In spite of successive rounds of economic and diplomatic sanctions — as a result of issues such as Russia's role in Ukraine and Syria — the job of blasting people into orbit has remained remarkably untouched by the bitter divide between Russia and its western space partners, which includes Canada.
"I like to view myself that I am standing on a bridge above all the unrest and tensions," said David Saint-Jacques, Canada's next space-bound traveller, who is scheduled to launch in December.
The 49-year-old Montrealer will lift off in a Russian rocket, sitting alongside a Russian cosmonaut commander and relaying key information to a ground-based Russian mission control, all the while speaking in Russian.
"You have to acknowledge politics — it exists," Saint-Jacques said. "It is a reality and we don't dismiss it, but we are fortunate, [as] cosmonauts and astronauts, that we are part of one of those few 'strings' that still exist between nations."
Saint-Jacques, who earned a PhD in astrophysics and also worked as a medical doctor, has been training for his December flight at Russia's Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, about an hour and half northeast of Moscow. This week, Canadian media were invited to observe some of his exercises and speak to the other two members of the crew.
While many other sectors of Russia's economy, such as the banking and energy industries, have been the frequent target of Western sanctions, so far, space has been left untouched.
Practical partnership
In April, Russian President Vladimir Putin told an audience of space enthusiasts at a Cosmonaut Day address in Moscow that he has no intention of drawing the space program into his disagreements with the United States and other western countries.
There may be practical reasons for that. Russia's space program remains a huge source of pride for the country, and Putin's government frequently invokes the names of great Russian space travellers — such as Gagarin — as he attempts to rebuild Russia's standing in the world.
NASA is also in the midst of a long-term contract with Russia that is lucrative for Putin's administration. NASA is paying Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, more than $2.6 billion US to take its astronauts up to the International Space Station until 2019. The last Canadian astronaut in space, Commander Chris Hadfield (who commanded the ISS in 2013), flew there in a Russian Soyuz rocket.
Since the end of NASA's Shuttle Program in 2011, Roscosmos has been the only option for moving people to the space station. The contract has been a lucrative source of money for Russia's space program, allowing the Putin government to continue working on new heavy-lift rockets with the aim of phasing out the 50-year-old Soyuz technology.
The hope is that Russia's new generation of rockets will be able to compete with soon-to-be-available privately owned spacecraft developed by U.S. companies such as Boeing and SpaceX.
Saint-Jacques says that while economics matter, he believes space has been free of political retribution mostly because all sides agree mankind must keep pushing forward with exploration...."
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Greencrow says: You won't be hearing Trudeau thank the Russians for allowing Canada to piggyback onto their space program yet again. Nosiree. Knuckleheaded Trudeau doesn't back down once he takes one of his "principled stands" on an issue. The fact of the matter is that Russia created the Space Station--and all of the foreign states that have sent astronauts into orbit around the earth on it--have gone there due to Russian technology. This was made possible due to the unique Russian ability, unknown in the West, to separate politics from science and to maintain agreements, even when the other side kicks you in the teeth. This is what the West has done to Russia---with all the sanctions--based on lies (like the Skripal hoax) and psychopathic fraud [the Bill Browder "Magnitsky Act" scam]. Nobody would hold it against Russia if it suddenly told the West to take its astronauts and shove them somewhere where the sun don't shine--and I don't mean space.
But Russia soldiers on...maintaining the decades old Agreements and contracts signed before the West decided that Russia had to be it's new "enemy du jour" in order that the MIC could keep fleecing taxpayers' money to pad their already exorbitant military budgets. Russia adheres to the old values like "Our Word is Our Bond".
But the Space Station contracts will all be up in the next few years--and it's highly doubtful they will be renewed. Once they're up, the West will have to depend on private contractors like Boeing and SpaceX to create a similar program. From their achievements thus far, it will be a very long time before the West is able to set up a Space Station to orbit the earth [they're even still dependent on Russia for rockets, for Gawd's sake!]. Why doesn't the West just give the assignment to NASA you ask. After all, NASA took man to the mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon in 1969. lolololololololol. NASA was/is just a fairytale. NASA is like asking Disney to handle space travel. It will be very believable and the graphics will be stunning. The brainwashed sheeple will buy it hook, line and sinker. Western civilians should ask themselves why Russia has never tried to go to the moon.
To send humanity into space requires the kind of technology that only Russia has been able to come up with. If Westerners really want to be part of the emerging new Russian technology in the future, wankers like Trudeau better grow up, stop hypocritically sucking up and then kicking Russia in the ballz. The real mystery for Canadians is why Trudeau would [or must] go down in ignominious electoral defeat in the next election rather than give a little well-earned respect to Russia. Who's yanking his chain????
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