New crisis, weapons in space?

 DOES THE TIMING HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH MORE MONEY FOR UKRAINE?

WESTERN WORLD GEARS UP FOR INCREASED DEFENSE SPENDING

Yesterday produced headlines and panic about a new security threat from, of course, Russia. While the details are supposed to be classified, leaks suggest that Russia has, or plans on, putting weapons in space. I suspect this cow is long out of the barn. There are already weapons in space, remember when we introduced the space force in the Trump administration.

The reality is that we now have adversaries and even enemies, whether of their own desires or manufactured by this country to increase defense spending or to use as some sort of political advantage. Russia is a perfect example, after 20 years of demonization, accused of hacking the DNC, collaborating with Donald Trump to defeat poor Hillary Clinton, all for political advantage. Then there are the Soviet era cold warriors who glory in the past of massive arms production to keep the Russians at bay and line their pockets for decades. They have been successful, Putin and Russia are now viewed by Americans as a threat that needs to be eliminated at all cost, even nuclear war.

The same applies to China, an economic competitor that has in fact raised the standard of living for a huge part of their population, but has more to go, is now also an emery. 

When the United States takes such pains to label others as enemies, they eventually, due to their own self preservation will become enemies.

A good example is when Bush11, labeled Iran, North Korea and Iraq as the axis of evil and then invaded Iraq, we saw a logical reaction from Iran and North Korea to produce nuclear weapons and any other sort of defense they found possible. 

When our military advises in open discussion to prepare for war with China, China must also prepare for war. When Russia come to understand that NATO expansion is an overt threat to the security of Russia, they react in kind. In fact at the beginning of the Ukraine conflict, Russia had a small and unprepared military, no longer, they are preparing for war in every way, it is the logical reaction to the trash talk and open threats. 

So now back to weapons in space. Logic tells an objective observer that the United States has developed a sophisticated and technologically dependent collection of military equipment, all of it dependent on computer technology, communications and GPS. So if you as an adversary expect war, do you try to mimic these weapons or just use technology to render them ineffective. It is far cheaper and doable to attempt to cancel the effectiveness of very complicated, expensive and hard to maintain equipment.

Fortunately Russia and China are watching as western Europe and the United States self destruct from within, with massive debt, a lack of a work ethic, massive social expenses, self destructive green policies, they within a short time, will no longer be a serious military threat. Every day that the Ukraine war goes on, Russia becomes stronger and the west become weaker. 

Again, back to space, if Russia or and China envisioned that the United states is now a threat to their existence they may now have the capability to disable the U.S. war machine. By using submarine launched hypersonic cruise missiles they could hit most of the coasts of the U.S. in less than 5 minutes. This coupled with an coordinated space event, either nuclear or electronic, could disable all communications and gps for enough time to allow for devastating destruction.

Hopefully somewhere along the line, a shift in policy to embrace co-existence will come about. 

At present that is not the trend, it is more spending on weapons and more trash talking for political advantage. A very dangerous game that no one should be playing.