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Best to avoid Kessler syndrome, where debris in low Earth orbit - such as space warfare might produce - knocks out satellites and makes space travel more hazard

• gremlinsinc 6y ago
  Say you're china, where part of your country is 3rd world, part industrialized. Say all your competitors are 1st world countries reliant on technology. You already censor the internet, if you could 'survive and thrive' without satellite/space tech, while other countries couldn't (or would have a hard time), wouldn't you be the winner if you could simply knock out space satellites by creating a Kessler effect? You move the countries tech back space-wise and communications wise, but you make it easier to win wars/battles on land potentially and expand your territory, or at the least cripple adversaries like the U.S. or Russia.