Kseniia Petrova is a russian who opposes the Ukraine war. She’s fighting amongst other things a possible deportation to Russia.
For further context, opposing the war can and does lead to 10-15 years imprisonment in Russia, and Russian prisons are even worse than ones in the US.
No matter what your opinions about Ukraine/Russia are, can we all agree that deporting a top scientist that already supports your side in a conflict, who is essentially defecting to your country from your biggest enemy, is dumb as hell? Like that’s literally how the US got Einstein.
Well that explains it.
Jesus fucking h Christ the actual state of the nation rn rip / lol / fml fuck fuck fuck
What the hell is Trump admin trying to achieve here? China was already overtaking the US in scientific research. Randomly detaining researchers just because they’re foreigners (among other things like defunding universities) ensures that in 5-10 years US will be hopelessly behind on everything from social sciences to medicine to physics, the list goes on really, and not just behind China but likely behind EU too. This really does seem like an empire in decay, however I’m willing to bet that people working on missiles to kill brown children will continue to be well-paid until the bitter end.
They’re following the playbook of Nazi Germany. Worked out great for them, didn’t it?
The sad/scary part is that the missile research did indeed work pretty damn well.
The V2 program was an outlier. Overall the Nazis were technologically behind the allies.
