Yeah, one of their modules is leaking in a sketchy way and they wanna dip. I'm sure politics and money play a non-trivial role but at the end of the day if the Russians won't put their people in it nobody should put people in it.
> at the end of the day if the Russians won't put their people in it nobody should
Ha, fair point ;-)
> I'm sure politics play a non-trivial role
Yeah, they may get paid to fly supply missions, but it's still a tiny bit uncomfortable to claim on TV how they are cooperating with the "evil Anglo-Saxons" (their strange propaganda term for the West) to supply the ISS.