>>13911686Russian screw up from extreme pressure to mantain complex machines with each time less and less resources.
Most of their labor is basically slave tier recruits they earn barely enough to feed themselves. But still they have problems mantaining that so they are forcing more and more work hours from the same amount of personel.
As money becomes more scarce, the money lost to corruption also becomes noticeably bigger, particularly since soyuz is not profitable since falcon 9 started flying (less and less people are booking flights) .
No one is in charge of the russian space program, everyones going trough the motions hoping it just somehow magically solves itself, eventually there will be a big accident that will ground russian cosmonauts for good until their countries economy gets to at least south africa tier.
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