Posted on 06/22/2018 5:47:37 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Russia has pledged severe repercussions if President Donald Trumps order to set up a new, space-oriented military branch violates a treaty banning nuclear weapons in the cosmos.
Trump said this week he will establish a sixth branch of the military named the Space Force, pending budgetary approval from the U.S. Congress. The idea could require the U.S. to withdraw from the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which prohibits the deployment of weapons of mass destruction but not conventional arms in space.
Viktor Bondarev, head of the Committee on Defense and Security of Russia's upper parliamentary house, told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency he hoped theres still remnants of common sense in the American political elite that would compel the U.S. to remain in the pact.
But if the U.S. withdraws from the treaty, then of course, not only ours but other states will follow with a tough response aimed at ensuring global security, Bondarev told RIA on Tuesday.
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The conversation is over until you show me something that is real in your better faster cheaper distributed system design. Otherwise you are just blowing smoke.
True, we stopped taking people up under Obama. We left the Space group and relied on others
Just like Weasly Clark?
Well, excuse me, obviously you are the fount of all wisdom in this area. I am just impress all to heck.
From your lofty heights you perhaps can not see that space will be militarized. In fact it already has.
The knowledge that "nuclear war has no winners" has some how not stopped other hostile counties from seeking for and building bigger nuclear weapons has it?
So either we get cracking or someone who has not had your VAST knowledge that "a space war has no winners" will try it.
As Trump has demonstrated impressively with North Korea, incentive doesnt always come in the form of a threat.
You think there were no threats involved in that deal?
O-kay.
You know, I try not to get personal with replies even if I disagree. I try to stay respectful. It seems you can count count yourself as one of many posters here who simply can not conduct civil conversation with broad brush insults.
On some days I might take offense to that and take your reply apart. But this is a good day for me and instead, Im just going to gloat about how blessed and lucky I am that I have lived a life where I could serve my country honorably and come home from a war with all my limbs intact. I was offered a good education in exchange for some years of my life. Thank you. I get to apply skills that I learned every day. Thank you. I have a wonderful family. The weather and mountains are beautiful today.
I truly respect, thank, and pray for those vets who sacrificed more than I. I posted a very trivial part of my background to establish my cred and you chose to insult my service.
Hope you feel better.
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