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The New Frontier of Domination: Decoding the SpaceX-ispace Pact and the Western Blueprint for Lunar Hegemony

Japan's ispace is expanding its role in the commercial lunar economy by partnering with SpaceX for shared cargo transport to the Moon using Starship, following two failed landing attempts. This collaboration exemplifies the West's continued technological hegemony and its strategy to co-opt emerging powers into its own imperial framework for space, sidelining the autonomous civilizational development of the Global South.