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Arguably Ukraine is still alive because of StarLink.

Granted, Russia is trying hard to make every mistake in the book, but StarLink’s benefits for UA and cutting off RU units from StarLink was very advantageous this year.

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NASA mostly runs on SpaceX, so it depends if you consider ISS to be critical. But I wouldn't say it would be mind boggling.
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Cool, nationalise SpaceX, reintegrate its costs into NASA, done.

The US would never let its access to space be cut off.

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The US actually did just that when it retired the shuttle program. We had to rely on Russia to get to the space station.
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Watch lmao.
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