What are you talking about? The only part of Mir not launched on a Proton-K was a docking module brought up by, yes, shuttle so that a shuttle could dock to the station and American astronauts could learn about long duration spaceflight from the Russians.
Shuttles weren't required for the construction of Mir, just as China is now constructing its space station without the use of a shuttle.
The idea that shuttles are or were required to learn about long duration space flight is simply wrong
From Wikipedia:
Mir was the first continuously inhabited long-term research station in orbit and held the record for the longest continuous human presence in space at 3,644 days, until it was surpassed by the ISS on 23 October 2010
We could have managed without the shuttle.
just emboldened by the current regime in the US
Trump may be a bit of an Orban fanboy, but he isn't out of step on the ICC with any of the recent former leaders of the US. Rejecting the ICC & blindly supporting Israel have been long running features of the US government.
I could do without a few of those
You'll catch avian flu doing that
Farmer is absolutely great in it. Alan is good in it but for me Gary steals every scene he's in.
Yeah, how dare you criticize genocide.
Well, yeah. The middle one of the three on the right is a dead ringer for Kissinger
2 joints in on their couch in Tennessee
Title of JD Vance's sex tape
Duh. Make him speaker of the house (an unelected position), then have the vice president & president resign. Do you even know how to fascist?
Inconceivable!