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Relative to the size of their economy, Russia actually has a very competitive space program. Russia does more launches than ESA, more launches than Japan, more launches than India. Russian medium-lift orbital rockets are more competitive than Chinese medium-lift orbital rockets. If the Russian space program is a failure, what does that say about all the countries with larger economies, doing a fraction of the orbital launches, or doing no launches at all?

Russia just isn’t a super power anymore. Russia has the 11th largest economy globally. Even Canada and Brazil have a larger GDP. Russia just isn’t able to out compete US orbital rockets anymore. Eventually Russia’s smaller economy (and Putin’s megalomania) was going to catch up to them.

There are many countries with larger economies that would gladly hire those engineers. There are many companies or universities they could get jobs at. Russian aerospace manufacturing is still weirdly ahead of most countries. Honestly the west should be doing more to encourage these people to leave Russia.