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Brangur t1_jbky8fk wrote

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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LaunchTransient t1_jbltgh6 wrote

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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Topsyye t1_jbmlziv wrote

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

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Astronics24 t1_jbmok6q wrote

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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PresentAd3536 t1_jbn8guq wrote

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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tanrgith t1_jbolcgj wrote

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

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Bensemus t1_jbqgglb wrote

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.

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