Russia would have a monopoly on crewed vehicles to the ISS.
Answer: Most or all of the innovations they’ve introduced would have been developed by entities that aren’t run by a literal nazi, and who aren’t continuously defrauding the government, breaking securities laws, ignoring environmental laws, absolutely incinerating cash, derailing the Artemis program, prosecuting the largest rug pull in history, and serving as a last refuge for the other failing businesses in Musk’s financial house of cards.
There was no mention of China. They would probably be launching more stuff than every other country combined.
Would they? These days, most of their launches are various Starlink competitors. If there were no Starlink to compete with, would China still be launching as much?


