The Soviet Union also railed against SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) which was the 1980s version of something similar.
Russia dusting off the old Soviet talking points and hysteria.
Yeah, it's like it's déjà vu all over again. Also their socialist lackeys in the Dem party derided SDI as "Star Wars." Expect The de facto leader of the Dems, AOC, to trot out the same lies, in 3...2...1...
I have recently seen articles by lib media saying SDI was a failure. I remember it actually worked very well during the first Gulf War.
The Soviets knew they couldn’t afford to keep up with SDI, which is why they had their fellow travelers poo-poo it.
yes i remember star wars fondly.... time to make it a reality
When you start this ABM stuff, it’s very destabilizing. Adversaries become unsure of reaching a target. So you start getting MIRVs, hypersonics, cruise missiles, and a massive number of warheads to hopefully overwhelm the system.
By the end of the cold war, the Soviets were up to 40,000 warheads and we were up to something like 35k. That’s compared to around 5500 for both of us today.
ABM sounds nice, but it’s like the old 10 round magazine limit in 1994. They expected manufacturers to build regular old full size pistols and stuff a 10 rounder in them. But locked into ten rounds, there was an explosion of very compact pistols, CCW became a thing. There was a renaissance
of revolvers and 1911s. And as long as you could only have 10, you got bigger calibers in small pistols.
Unintended consequences are a thing. The Rand Corporation and Herman Khan explored this in debt. We are getting a 2 trillion dollar defense program, that is destabilizing and not needed.
MAD has worked fine since the early 1960s.
Although, when we were depending on MAD, we and the Brits and Germans made a point of not shooting cruise missiles at Russian nuclear bases, early warning radars and even Moscow.
So maybe we do need one.
But I think it’s morally wrong to cover DC with it. This is their war, they should enjoy the warmth.