Also, you should add what is the true driving cause of NATO "expansion" (there is a reason I put them in double apostrophes): Russia's treatment of its lackey countries.

With the exception of Hungary, whose prime minister went from "russians go home" to "we must protect russian oligarchs from sanctions" by the good old Hungarian tradition of institutionalized corruption, every ex-USSR member either became a NATO member, wants to be or became like Belarus with dictators.

You are correct but this is the official line and what is being sold to the Russian population. Russian population hears about Putin stopping NATO expansion and NATO expansion happening anyway, what do they think? Putin is weak and losing his grip. That's not good for Putin's power, which is built on his strong-man image. Nothing can destroy a strong-man image than losing a war he thought he'd win in a week.

It is also a humiliation because Putin's was that the war was caused by "NATO expansion". His war against Nato expansion? Causes previously non-Nato countries that avoided NATO membership in fear of upsetting Russia to... to suddenly join NATO because they see that Russia will invade a neighboring while violating their previous security guarantees to a nation that they are dead-set on invading and joining to their own country.

The USA is relying on SpaceX because every new president kept rewriting NASA's project goals while reducing funding and changing their priorities, therefore severely harming the USA's ability to put stuff up in space on their own.

But Elon tried to do that and despite being government-funded (SpaceX was saved from bankruptcy by government money), so politicians didn't keep telling rocket scientists what they should be doing and Elon kept his mouth shut because if this company fails he'll be in trouble. Thus SpaceX managed to work despite him.

Then Elon got into his head that he's actually a genius rather than a guy employing geniuses and now doesn't understand why advertisers are pulling out of a platform whose moderation staff he is proudly sacking.