What happens in Washington decidedly does not stay in Washington, with practically every action taken by the richest and most powerful country in the world having a near-immediate global reaction—on tariffs,

Musk’s threat to decommission the Dragon spacecraft revealed the vulnerability of NASA which is now dependent on private companies for many critical systems in the space programme

Elon Musk’s brief threat to cut off NASA’s access to SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft exposed how heavily the US space agency and national security programmes now rely on his company.