inb4 it's Starlink.

So we can afford space weapons but not universal health care and basic social safety net programs?

This is the typically profoundly short sighted shit we can expect from the Americans.

Look--there is a VERY simply counter to ANY space weapon, no matter how poweful and expensive:

If you don't have the technology to compete in space, all you do is throw shrapnel grenades into space until the entire orbit is full of little bits of metal zipping around at hundreds of miles an hour, shredding any weapons that are up there.

Unfortunately, any satellites, used for communication, or for weather forecasting, or space observation, will also be shredded.

The United States is actively fucking with the future of humanity. The world needs to divest and sanction this shitshow of a country.

(Officially called Kessler Syndrome--has a very nice wiki page).

Once a year I go to the local library and print some blank 1040s and other tax documents, costs me like $2 in print fees. Nobody (except maybe Ratheon) wants weapons in space. Can we make tax season more efficient instead? For example, gov sends a tax bill that one either pays or disputes rather than forcing everyone to calculate a number they already have?

we'll be losing wars in space soon!

The U.S. government is already killing aliens on Earth. May as well expand the practice to space.

Since every accusation is a confession, the Jewish space lasers starting forest fires were probably American space lasers starting forest fires.

Though it must be mentioned that Israel now admits to both building space lasers for attacking ground targets, and starting forest fires as part of their "war effort". I'm sure they got the ideas from their lord proprietor.

This just sounds like they're being pretentious about L3 Meadowlands, which is a dish on a trailer for jamming drone satellite links. The US deployed tons of those before bombing Iran and they all got blown up because Iran has been jamming US drones for years and was very public about building their drones with AI camera based guidance since jamming is too easy.

Kessler syndrome incoming.

A good axiom to remember is whatever the government admits to, they have something 10 times more capable.

So I have a lot of questions about that story. The claim was that Specialist Grey was sitting at a terminal that was under attack and stayed at her terminal operating the space backed weaponry until the was literally pulled from her desk to seek safety's elsewhere.

I'm wondering what attack a US military installation has suffered? I'm seriously doubting that his story was anything but a training exercise with zero actual danger.

Can't keep up production on tomahawk missiles? Put your money into space weapons. Makes about as much sense as anything this admin does, which is that it doesn't until you see who the investors are.