Consider the recent Chinese far-side-of-the-moon probe: it forced them (cough, cough) to put a communications satellite around the moon, conveniently out of ran

Consider the recent Chinese far-side-of-the-moon probe: it forced them (cough, cough) to put a communications satellite around the moon, conveniently out of range for any US space-based anti-satellite weaponry which could disable a satellite in earth orbit.