Hmm. Yeah, okay, Quebec is out of the question and I don't want to limit our success and spend precious remaining budget on marked-up prices for barely-adequate assembly lines, so it's down to politics or corporates getting a hand in things.
And of the two, honestly, I prefer the politics for the simple, brutal reason that big corporations can be really fucking stupid about chasing short-term profit in unsustainable and self-destructive ways. Now yes, that's not to say that politicians can't also do incredibly stupid things, but there's a much wider variance on how and why they do stupid things, and they don't interate strongly towards the same central "burn down the farm to get out one good crop" incentive that corpo interests always seem to fall back on. The fact that we'll be able to lean back is good too, but it's mostly the fact that I just trust government interests to be less consistently stupid and toxic than corpo ones that sells me on it. The fact that they specifically give us things like "political pressure to move us up the waiting lines on parts" and "advice on making sure this doesn't happen again" is also something I consider more valuable than just a blunt-force wad of Money.
Therefore...
[X] Accept KazakhCosmos Assistance (Gain additional political backing in exchange for political interference on future projects.)
