Be nice if all nations could collaberate on and finance just one platform, and exploration of space.
Silly, silly me.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
If the commies get to the moon, then it is inevitable, they will conquer MArs, then the asteroids, then jupiter, and before you know it, they are in Australia.