{"id":148579,"date":"2025-08-08T14:22:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=148579"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:22:54","slug":"amid-nuclear-threats-russia-signals-intent-to-continue-space-cooperation-with-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/amid-nuclear-threats-russia-signals-intent-to-continue-space-cooperation-with-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid nuclear threats, Russia signals intent to continue space cooperation with U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

FPI<\/span><\/strong> \/ August 8, 2025<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Geostrategy-Direct<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

By<\/em><\/span> Richard Fisher<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The roller coaster of United States-Russia relations hit a dangerous curve this past week, making curious Russia\u2019s simultaneous public gesture that it desires continued space cooperation with the Washington.<\/p>\n

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A moment of calm: on July 31, 2025 Russian space agency Roscosmos director Dmitry Bakanov met with Sean Duffy, Acting Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. \/ Roscosmos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

President Donald Trump campaigned promising to seek an early end to Russia\u2019s horrific war against Ukraine an at some personal political expense made numerous gestures to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, he tried to initiate negotiations with Russia toward ending its war, only to face up to the reality of Putin\u2019s recalcitrance, and more recently to trade nuclear threats with former Russian President and current Deputy Chairman of the Russian National Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.<\/p>\n

Expressing his frustration, on July 29 Trump said that Russia had \u201c10 days from today\u201d to reach a ceasefire in its war or be hit with tariffs against its oil industry, including against those who purchase its oil \u2014 which include China and India.<\/p>\n

Medvedev then responded on Russian social media Telegram that Trump\u2019s statements affirmed Russia path, saying \u201c\u2026then Russia is doing everything right and will continue to proceed along its own path,\u201d and then remarked ominously that Trump should remember “how dangerous the fabled ‘Dead Hand’ can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dead Hand is a Soviet Cold War-era nuclear control system that automatically ensures a massive nuclear strike during or after a nuclear attack.<\/p>\n

But this statement by Medvedev prompted Trump to announce on Aug. 1 that “I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that.\u201d<\/p>\n

One might assess that the U.S.-Russian space relationship, now centered on maintaining and using the International Space Station (ISS), was similarly fragile, but this past week saw a rare gesture \u2014 the first since 2018 \u2014 a visit to the U.S. by a Russian space agency Roscosmos director, currently Dmitry Bakanov.<\/p>\n

Appointed to this position in February at age 39, Bakanov was most recently Deputy Minister of Transportation, has worked in the information technology industry, speaks fluent English and strikes a refreshing contrast with his bombastic predecessor Dmitry Rogozin.<\/p>\n

Despite the ominous Trump-Medvedev exchange, it is noteworthy that Putin did not recall Bakanov, who arrived in Houston on July 31 to meet with Sean Duffy, Acting Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).<\/p>\n

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