[carlmr]

>They're playing by different rules and there's no mutual recourse for misconduct or malice.

Does Russian have recourse for misconduct or malice from NASA? If not then I think it's a situation where both parties have skin in the game and are trying their best. Mistakes happen, and it would be counterproductive to assume malice without evidence.

If you want to make your point, I'd at least expect some kind of statistical analysis of accident frequency vs number of contributions, and then doing an analysis if there is a significant deviation in the distribution.

My null hypothesis is that the frequency of mistakes/accidents is roughly proportional to the number of modules contributed by each nation.