Tesla’s #Elon_Musk stood as Ukraine’s ally on isolating Russia
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The U.S. Federal Claims Court on May 8 lifted a previously issued injunction that prevented United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, from buying Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines, according to Oleg Ostapenko, head of Russia’s space agency Roskosmos.
Despite all the talks on the sanctions against Russia, American court decided not to follow this policy direction. One of the key arguments agains sanctions refers to the potential losses which they might bring to the Western companies. However, particularly in this case, U.S. based #SpaceX could significantly benefit, but court made a different choice.
Résumons, on sanctionne la Russie, mais on lui achète tout de même des moteurs fusées parce que sinon, ça embêterait les entreprises états-uniennes.
C’est #Tesla - SpaceX qui est bien embêté qui, fervent partisan de l’Ukraine, se proposait de vendre ses propres moteurs à la place des russes…