Redundancy is almost always a good thing. If something goes wrong with one form, they have the backup while they fix it.

There is a road going up there, and as another user pointed out there are overland cables connecting it to the rest of the system.

I can only see a future where Ukraine weens off of American support and finds alternatives elsewhere in nations that not only are on significantly friendlier terms, but more reliable ones as well. It’ll come to no surprise to me if other nations that buy from our contractors start to do less of that as well.

Sort of. With something as simple as a hammer sure, but when the hammer is equipped with a 9mm pistol then it falls under different safety standards that deem the tool inherently unsafe. A physical tool would be recalled if somebody got hurt in an unintended way.