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US Warns on Russia's New Space Weapons (reuters.com)
The United States voiced deep suspicion on Tuesday over Russia's pursuit of new space weapons, including a mobile laser system to destroy satellites in space, and the launch of a new inspector satellite which was acting in an "abnormal" way. From a report: Russia's pursuit of counterspace capabilities was "disturbing," Yleem D.S. Poblete, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, told the U.N.'s Conference on Disarmament which is discussing a new treaty to prevent an arms race in outer space. A Russian delegate at the conference dismissed Poblete's remarks as unfounded and slanderous. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, at the Geneva forum in February, said a priority was to prevent an arms race in outer space, in line with Russia's joint draft treaty with China presented a decade ago.
While you're at it, please ignore our new Space Force.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
With the US creating a whole new military branch (or at least the executive trying to) why would be surprised other quasi hostile nations with the capability of doing so would NOT be preparing space based counter measures?
Space Force aside what did people think was going to happen everyone was just going to play nice and abide by already 40 year old treaties to not put more than 10 warheads on an ICBM for all eternity?
Time marches on folks - technology improves.
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What do you think a secret phase conjugate tracking system is for?
We have a Space Farce so ha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Why, did they announce they were setting up a space force or some thing?
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as in they getting prepared for exactly the stupid shit americans are doing cause they cant be trusted
But seriously, who came up with that name? Can't we instead call it the Star Force?
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We know that massive technological advances were made in the 1800's and 1900's due to each country one-upping the other on technology. In WWI, one country would make a plane that could go 200mph, their enemy would make one that went 215mph. If this is applied to space warfare, we would achieve lightspeed, antimatter weapons, and antigravity far sooner than we would otherwise.
The US star wars program was the final nail in the communist Soviet Bloc's coffin. Money well spent even if it were "fake" (which it's not).
The name "Yleem D.S. Poblete" sounds like the type of name a race of alien lizard people would choose as sounding nice and inconspicuous!
And that's coming from me!!
It was neither fake nor about this kind of thing. It was a missile defense system. And it actually developed into multiple working weapons systems. Patriot missile systems are one example, and there are more.
However, one cannot deny that the prospect of such a system was partially responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union as they economically couldn't manage the R&D work required to "keep up" with all that was going on. They tried, but it only hastened their economic collapse. So, Star Wars actually was successful as a strategy, even if it didn't produce a weapon system that achieved all it's stated goals. It was pretty good propaganda if nothing else.
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Start a space war branch.
Whine that Russia for whatever related to war in space.
Make sense.
Also the agencies have no credibility for the stories they make up. Right now a top 10 video of militray plans which never happened is playing on my computer including CIA suggesting supporting American communists to attack the USA to put the blame on Cuba and make it possible to attack them.
It's happened so many times.
Of course Russia will make weapons for space war if the US do so.
>> United States voiced deep suspicion on Tuesday over Russia's pursuit of new space weapons, including a mobile laser system to destroy satellites in space
Clearly, the red-blooded Men of America cannot allow a fake laser satellite gap - open the nation's pocketbook now!!!
You know what else was good propaganda? Mickey mouse and McDonald's.
"Russia is ready to respond to any provocation, but the last thing the Russians want is another war. And that, if you like good news, is the best news you are going to hear."
A whiff of World War III hangs in the air. In the US, Cold War 2.0 is on, and the anti-Russian rhetoric emanating from the Clinton campaign, echoed by the mass media, hearkens back to McCarthyism and the red scare. In response, many people are starting to think that Armageddon might be nigh—an all-out nuclear exchange, followed by nuclear winter and human extinction. It seems that many people in the US like to think that way. Goodness gracious!
The curtain is falling on a country in serious trouble
But, you know, this is hardly unreasonable of them. The US is spiraling down into financial, economic and political collapse, losing its standing in the world and turning into a continent-sized ghetto full of drug abuse, violence and decaying infrastructure, its population vice-ridden, poisoned with genetically modified food, morbidly obese, exploited by predatory police departments and city halls, plus a wide assortment of rackets, from medicine to education to real estate That we know.
We also know how painful it is to realize that the US is damaged beyond repair, or to acquiesce to the fact that most of the damage is self-inflicted: the endless, useless wars, the limitless corruption of money politics, the toxic culture and gender wars, and the imperial hubris and willful ignorance that underlies it all This level of disconnect between the expected and the observed certainly hurts, but the pain can be avoided, for a time, through mass delusion.
This sort of downward spiral does not automatically spell "Apocalypse," but the specifics of the state cult of the US—an old-time religiosity overlaid with the secular religion of progress—are such that there can be no other options: either we are on our way up to build colonies on Mars, or we perish in a ball of flame. Since the humiliation of having to ask the Russians for permission to fly the Soyuz to the International Space Station makes the prospect of American space colonies seem dubious, it's Plan B: balls of flame here we come!
And so, most of the recent American warmongering toward Russia can be explained by the desire to find anyone but oneself to blame for one's unfolding demise. This is a well-understood psychological move—projecting the shadow—where one takes everything one hates but can't admit to about oneself and projects it onto another. On a subconscious level (and, in the case of some very stupid people, even a conscious one) the Americans would like to nuke Russia until it glows, but can't do so because Russia would nuke them right back. But the Americans can project that same desire onto Russia, and since they have to believe that they are good while Russia is evil, this makes the Armageddon scenario appear much more likely.
But this way of thinking involves a break with reality. There is exactly one nation in the world that nukes other countries, and that would be the United States. It gratuitously nuked Japan, which was ready to surrender anyway, just because it could. It prepared to nuke Russia at the start of the Cold War, but was prevented from doing so by a lack of a sufficiently large number of nuclear bombs at the time. And it attempted to render Russia defenseless against nuclear attack, abandoning the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2002, but has been prevented from doing so by Russia's new weapons. These include, among others, long-range supersonic cruise missiles (Kalibr), and suborbital intercontinental missiles carrying multiple nuclear payloads capable of evasive maneuvers as they approach their targets (Sarmat). All of these new weapons are impossible to intercept using any conceivable defensive technology. At the same time, Russia has also developed its own defensive capabilities, and its latest S-500 system will effectively seal off Russia's airspace, being able to intercept targets both close to
if someone else does it, then they're bad people. Waaah-waaah-waaah. The corrupt, dishonest and hypocritical war-mongering shithole of America complaining again.
He asked intelligently, you failed to respond intelligently.
I can't tell the difference between someone with TDS and a paid writer on here, assuming you're the former - get a grip, you're acting like TDS has shut down your reasoning centres.
BULL FUCKING SHIT. It did not have anything to with that because every scientist knew it was absolute bullshit. SDI could not work. The Soviets knew that too. A run away military budget brought the Soviet Union to ruin. If it hadn't, the United States military budget would have bankrupted us.
Ironically, Russia's lean defense budget seems to do a better job then the United States. If you believe all the red scare in the press.
He has more than one? I start to understand why he's so popular.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Firstly, why would I believe anything that the Trump administration says about anything?
Secondly, it's a bit handy this coming a few days after the pile of vomit in in the White House twitted about his great new Space Force and how it will "dominate" the world, isn't it? Almost as if the two announcements were connected.
Thirdly, what the hell should anyone about to be "dominated" by the US do? Sit and watch?
Trump is a disgrace to his mother's cunt.
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It would be sad if only the US had a space force... I'm happy.
Patriot is an antiaircraft missile system that was pressed into service as an antimissile system prior to and during the first Gulf War. It seems to be quite a good anti-aircraft system. A lot of claims were made for it as an antimissile system during the Gulf War, but they didn't stand up well to scrutiny when the data was made public. The military and the GWB administration solved that problem after 2001 by not releasing more recent data for public analysis.
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We designed bitcoin to allow us to track down all of Putin's cash horde, worldwide.
Boy is he going to be surprised!
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Actually, it was the drop in the price of oil that brought the USSR to ruin. We bribed the Saudi's into oversupplying the world market, and the USSR was hardest hit. By the end of the USSR, defense spending had already fallen through the floor to make room for perestroika initiatives and to foster greater autonomy and self-reliance in satellite states.
That was the intention, but it didn't have the intended result. Year-over-year soviet defense spending was actually relatively flat; increasing only 1-3% from then until '85, when Gorbechav nuked the defense budget to make room for perestroika and force military autonomy on satellite states. What we don't know is whether any intangible psychological effect influenced how glasnost and perestroika played out.
I'm still waiting for my "peace dividend" from the end of the cold war...
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Both China and Russia are blowing big bucks on space weapons while claiming they want to stop it. What a joke.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
The problem with saying Patriot is a good system is that multiple recent independent studies into its effectiveness during the First Gulf War have cast serious doubt on its success - US Army claims of 80% accuracy were independently found to rather be between 0% and 10%...
The system has indeed been developed into a decent platform, but only in the years after the FGW, during which it was basically entirely redesigned.
Or I dunno, forget about any notion of Republican Space Rangers and just use the organisation that's been successfully doing space travel and exploration for 60 years.
But that would mean some orange retard admitting he was wrong to de-fund them in the first place.
There isn't a need for a military presence in space, in fact it would be an expensive boondoggle.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.