At a hearing held in the US Congress on Wednesday local time, American space experts, government officials, and members of Congress reached or reinforced a unified understanding: “For the US and its partners not to be on the moon when others are on the moon, is unacceptable.” The US and its allies should win the 21st century “space race” and lead a “rules-based international order” there before China creates its own “undesirable norms.”
In plain language, this statement suggests that after the US, along with its allied nations, has used the banner of the so-called “rule-based international order” to engage in geopolitical efforts to contain China on Earth, they now want to apply the same tactics in outer space. They view the moon as the first “arena” for competition among nations beyond Earth. From this perspective, the true purpose of the US “return to the moon” plan is far from pure. It goes against the universal human desire to explore and utilize outer space for peaceful purposes. The extension of US geopolitical strategies from “land” to “space” is not just a significant escalation in competition but, in a sense, a step backward.
Full editorial: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202401/1305700.shtml
in a nutshell
The US is truly deranged. Even so-called scientists at the Nazi Astronautics Scientific Agency (NASA) are in contravention to all scientific duties and without any sense or rationale beyond exploiting and increasing racial and national chauvinism against China hyping up the idea that China getting to the moon first is a threat, that the US getting there first is somehow necessary for their “international rules based order”.
To me it sounds like they’re not so openly again trying to explore the idea of putting weapons on the moon with the intention of policing the earth with them, something banned by the UN Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies or at the least claiming portions of it for use as dual-use staging bases or perhaps simple old European colonialism instincts are kicking in and they need to claim a piece of land they see up for grabs despite its minimal value to provide any raw resources. But of course we know they’ve never respected international law, hold others to it while refusing to sign (see case of maritime law and the treaty of the sea which they use to attack China over its south china sea claims while refusing to be bound by it themselves of course) and are not above leaving the moment it is advantageous to do so.
Shame on these fascists wearing lab-coats. Shame on these war-mongers who spit on the spirit of science and dare call themselves scientists.
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Weapons on the moon sound hilariously impractical and impracticable. Critical support for imperialist boondoggles.
It’s possible and not that impractical due to low gravity of the moon, but one had to be Murican to consider it right now, since putting them there would require colossal effort and those would be pure revenge mass destruction weapons anyway.
So the entire issue shows more that US minds are in gutter to think of military first and only and also immediately project their paranoia on others.
They tried with Project A119.
They didn’t do it because they realized that would be a horrifically bad move to detonate nukes on the moon.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
They could put them in space though. You know that soviet project for partially orbital bombardment system?
If we want to get technical there are already weapons in space courtesy of the National Recon Office, just that they’re used to create a panopticon and gather intel.
Well yes, but I was thinking more in terms of actual nuclear missiles. IIRC it’s supposed to be illegal internationally (there are treaties and all), and USSR scrapped the aforementioned orbital drop system because of it. But do we really expect yanks to abide by the treaties they enforced on other countries?
I said it in the other thread and I’ll say it again here: Unlimited Apollo 1s on naSSa.
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The more I hear the phrase “rules based international order” the more it sounds like a company slogan dreamt up by the CEO’s failson and he liked the sound of it, so everyone else in the company just has to accept that it is their slogan now.
That’s basically it, isn’t it? The whole world is a corporation and these chucklefucks are the admin. Mostly the PR division, since the managers don’t show up for the cameras
It’s actually very funny reading recent US statements about the Moon because nobody lives there so there’s no credible appeal to freedom or democracy or human rights and the copywriters really struggle.
Yet another China W
