Former ISS Commander Terry Virts: Space United Us. Putin Tore Us Apart.

The entire concept of working alongside and collaborating with a rival country with the hope that the relationship warms into friendlier ties is naive at best, and can be also described as being wilfully ignorant.

It doesn’t work, and history has proved over, and over again that all that this achieves is that it strengthens and enables those countries, who will then pursue their own objectives and throw the olive branch back at the West the moment cooperation becomes inconvenient to those objectives.

Of course, people will be optimistic. And people want to avoid conflict. But it’s obvious that it’s a strategy that just buys some short period of peace before the conflict blows up anyway, except with an emboldened and stronger opponent that the West has actively collaborated with.