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Re:China and Russia attack US satellites every day: Space Fo... by Stranger43 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @10:05AM (#29404288)
Translation space force general wants a bigger budget for doing exactly what he is accusing other states of doing.

Weather or not this is related to any genuinely new or controversial activity or just that someone wants a bigger budget is one of those things "we the people" are not entitled to know.

It's completely against the ethos of the intelligence services to be truthful about what level of successful espionage is being conducted by opponents and completely unthinkable to admit to any espionage they themselves are conducting so this kind of announcement should not be taken as proof that something new or dangerous is happening, that warrants any kind of escalation.

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Re:China and Russia attack US satellites every day: Space Fo... by Jeff_Brown on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @10:27AM (#29404598)
You might be right, but the argument that we should tolerate China or Russia lasering our satellites because the US probably does things its citizens don't know about seems like it's missing something.
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Re:China and Russia attack US satellites every day: Space Fo... by Stranger43 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @11:02AM (#29405095)
It's missing the history of independent nation states at peace i.e. this kind of "gunboat" diplomacy is as old as civilization itself and no major power have been able to curtail it's hawks from pulling stunts even when they wanted to and they rarely do.
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