Russia space agency head says satellite hacking would justify war -report

Reuters ^ | MOSCOW, March 2 (Reuters) | MOSCOW, March 2 (Reuters)

[RaceBannon]

MOSCOW, March 2 (Reuters) - Russia will treat any hacking of its satellites as a justification for war, the head of the country's space agency was quoted as saying in a news report on Wednesday.

Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin denied media reports that Russian satellite control centres have already been hacked amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, while warning against any attempts to do so, Interfax news agency reported.

"Offlining the satellites of any country is actually a casus belli, a cause for war," Interfax quoted him as saying.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

This must mean that the Chinese are already doing it.

[Vermont Lt]

They did not screw with the Satellite. They just messed with the remote control.

My wife does that all the time.

[rrrod]

Putin and his scum are sure pushing this war stuff.

[z3n]

Putin and his scum are sure pushing this war stuff.

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Bluffs or not, he is telegraphing his strategic anxieties

[RaceBannon]

It’s been almost 40 years since I remember hearing this stuff

[HighSierra5]

Just send a contingent of Space Cowboys up there and evict the Ruskies.

[datura]

Brezhnev wasn’t this crazy. Have they been feeding Putin PCP lately?

[Seruzawa]

You might want to finish your war in the Ukraine before you decide to declare war on countries that can hack or take down satellites.

[Houserino]

I think it’s very likely Putin has a fatal diagnosis. He’s completely unhinged. If this doesn’t wake up the millennials and Gen Z.. They’ve never had to face an existential crisis like this for the most part. Hopefully it’ll put all the whining about trannies and crap out to pasture, probably not though.

[ETCM]

Putin has become a caricature of a Soviet Chairman. He appears to be trying to one-up Kim Jong-un for the title of Craziest Evil Dictator.

[RaceBannon]

I remember it being more polite...

The Carter Doctrine in 1980 sounded manly when we heard it: "The following key sentence, which was written by Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Adviser, concludes the section:

Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force."

I was deploying the next day on the Okinawa to the Arabian Sea...so, yeah...

[RaceBannon]

[Libloather]

Don’t other Russians hack stuff? Uh, oh.