An announcement that the US has active weapons platforms in orbit has come as the Space Force seeks a $71 billion budget hike.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52023642

🌌 The US Space Force is like a self-fulfilling prophecy:

First they announce this:

“…Pentagon has definitively deployed active space-based weapons platforms.”

Then they declare peaceful, untouched and shared Space: “Space is both a battlefield…”

Their counterparts around the world do the same, & these warmongers have brought us one step closer to turning the last frontier into a military conflict zone.

SPACE IS FOR ALL MANKIND - No leadership can change that!

  • Gladaed@feddit.org
    72·
    3 days ago

    Orbital weaponry isn’t lasers and torpedos.

    Orbital infrastructure is Starlink and satellites. They are essential to warfare and hence legitimate targets. This is a nothing burger. And prescribing not pacifism but inaction will not work. Unless enforced, violently if required.

      • Gladaed@feddit.org
        11·
        3 days ago

        Infrastructure for war is a legitimate target and hence legitimizes weapons that target said infrastructure.

        Safelite weaponry typically isn’t a torpedo, explosives or a laser but just knocking the thing down or jamming it.

        • AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip
          2·
          3 days ago

          Everything you said in this comment may be true, but none of it changes the fact that a US military representative said the US is putting weapons, not infrastructure, in space.