Will they smash their Vodka bottles in anger?
Russia has been working their “strong response” for decades.
They’re incapable of moving any faster.
Russia worshipping scum will be here in 4..3..2...
Klingons!
Probably the best thing they could have said, was, nothing. Even if they had the capacity to match the US effort they should still have said nothing. The same goes for most comments on social media. Generally, the best response is nothing at all.
This feels like Reagan and Star Wars and Gorbachev all over again. The Russians talk tough, but they cannot compete. We win if we try to win. If they try to win, they collapse.
The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 only bans WMDs in space. I don’t think it even prohibits kinetic energy weapons. A “Space Force” on its own does not violate it.
You would not need nuclear weapons in space.
A steel rod dropped from space and that could be guided to a target would do a lot of damage upon impact (without any radiation).
I am not sure if weaponizing space is a good thing or not, nor am I sure the Russians (or Chinese) have not already done so. Perhaps the President has received a briefing where he has been told that both Russian and China already have weapons in space. Which would help explain his action.
Russia is broke; they can't afford to build squat. What we have here is a textbook example of Sun Tzu's admonishment in The Art of War: "When weak, appear strong."
Amazing! This story from the Moscow Times has the same tone, Trump bashing, Anti-Americanism and fake news content as a story from the New York Times. They could literally take the newspaper name off and put New York Times on and you would not know the difference.
Wanna know more?
Maybe they can learn how to make babies in the process.
Oh they’ve been weaponizing space for years.
We’re late to the game.
Russia tried this before, and it didn’t work out well for them, both in the 60s and the 80s...
It’s always funny when a country with an economy the size of Canada threatens to “bury” us.