US Learning Astropolitics Lesson 101, Vulnerability

As global powers race for space autonomy, the US faces hard lessons—balancing monopolies, budgets, and its own vulnerability in a shifting cosmos.

The game of tariffs, cancellations, and sanctions has reached its climax in Washington, where the chickens have come home to roost. Today, commercial space companies and financiers have created a complex interplay of leverage among themselves, leaving the United States (US) government to seek a new grip on its space programme. As the Ukraine-Russia war reaches a point where peace negotiations have made inroads into the larger narrative surrounding it, the multipolar world’s primary attribute—the desire for autonomy—has come to the fore. This desire is fuelling an even more powerful drive to reduce vulnerabilities.

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