Reacting in part to NASA's reluctance to
share any
hardware that might have
military applications, ESA turned to Russia to purchase the docking mechanism, which allows the vehicle to hook up to the station.
It is difficult to think of a conflict that was not in some way influenced by other states, somewhere along the spectrum from media support, diplomatic cover, supplying weapons,
sharing intelligence, through training forces, deploying troops and
military hardware, all the way to directing or fabricating the existence of a proxy force from abroad.