What are you talking about? The only part of Mir not launched on a Proton-K was a docking module brought up by, yes, shuttle so that a shuttle could dock to the station and American astronauts could learn about long duration spaceflight from the Russians.
Shuttles weren't required for the construction of Mir, just as China is now constructing its space station without the use of a shuttle.
The idea that shuttles are or were required to learn about long duration space flight is simply wrong
Mir was the first continuously inhabited long-term research station in orbit and held the record for the longest continuous human presence in space at 3,644 days, until it was surpassed by the ISS on 23 October 2010
Trump may be a bit of an Orban fanboy, but he isn't out of step on the ICC with any of the recent former leaders of the US. Rejecting the ICC & blindly supporting Israel have been long running features of the US government.
Villains or heroes isn't the issue. It's the argument that we need a group that doesn't play by the rules that apply to the rest of society that I find problematic.
Shouldn't we strive for a world in which the rules really do apply to all? Can't we hope to conceive of a set of laws standards by which we should all be judged? Isn't the world of Star Trek meant in some way to be aspirational, rather than just a reflection of what we have now?
That's certainly a misremembering of what happened, yes