I know it's naive, but here's an idea. Stop doing war. Trillions of dollars now open to space mining

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Well it's an admirable sentiment but we cannot permit our enemies to control space resources because we want those resources.

How about we stop viewing others as Enemies and use diplomacy to find ways to work together?

An admirable sentiment. Would you like to propose this to Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping?

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Genuine question - are you trolling?

Like, how does someone write that post with a straight face while the war in Ukraine is happening

by golly you've solved the war question. Someone get this person on the phone with Joe Biden, stat

Genius, now we only need to get all the other guys onboard.

Let me check, China, Russia,India, France...

Yeah, no problems there.

Are you for real?

the people thinking about this "space war" are people that won't fight the war or don't share the trillions on mining asteroids.

There are some who believe that China's aggressive expansionism and Russia's revanchism is merely a difference of opinion and that actually all that is needed is a sit down around a table and talk it out.

It's a noble, if naive, sentiment, but not one rooted in reality.

That said, we need to keep conflict out of space as much as possible. It would be all too easy to render our orbital environment hostile to all space endeavours because of flaring tempers - and this would be a burden to bear for centuries.

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This sub as a whole has the extremely naive idea that war can't happen in space and that Earth must become a utopia or we won't go anywhere.

Fair, you know other countries are figuring out the same thing. It just makes sense.

The title is really clickbate. This is just saying the US is trying to determine how to react if Russia starts taking out Starlink satellites because Ukraine is using them.

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I think it's important to use diplomatic measures first, and violence only when there is no other alternative. Right now, there are over 7 billion people on the planet and over 5 billion of us live in non-conflict zones, and few countries are actually currently at war. Russia has had massive sanctions and is feeling the bite, with more being enacted to this day.

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You know what is also making Russia feel the bite? All the western ammunition and equipment that Ukraine is using to defend itself from the Russian invaders that's been raping women, kidnapping children, and committing genocide for the last year

And it doesn't bring up anything of substance about it, just a vague quote.

Fair enough. Personally, I am appalled at what Putin has done, and also by the Republicans that advocate against supporting the Ukraine.

Germany tried to avoid conflict with Russia by trading with it. The hope was that the economic repunctuations would make war too expensive. That didn't' work.

With China trade does seem to be preventing any conflict but people aren't confident that it will hold forever. China is illegally building islands in the South China Sea to claim resource rich waters as theirs and are ignoring the legitimate claims from the countries around the sea.

The spy balloon also damaged political relationships between China and the US.

I'm not saying the US's way is right. I would however argue their way is more right that what China and Russia seem to want.