I mean, I thought the stuff over Taiwan was a little over the top, but. Did you know that the US just paid approaching 6 billion dollars to buy Italian warship

I mean, I thought the stuff over Taiwan was a little over the top, but. Did you know that the US just paid approaching 6 billion dollars to buy Italian warships? Basically, the US Navy feels like it's going to need blue water forces, while it has instead been concentrating on littoral craft. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buA4ajpCtpQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buA4ajpCtpQ This does have something to do with China. China wants to have a dominant blue water Navy and become a world power. They can't viably do this without Taiwan. Considering how big China is economically, and how it's growing, it may be just a matter of time before mounting an invasion goes from uncertain and dicey, to something they can easily afford. this is just satire, right? No. The biggest wars of the 20th century had a lot to do with control over energy resources. Whoever can operate industrial infrastructure on the moon will be able to build space solar power. At large enough scales, this basically is fusion power. Whoever controls this energy can eventually dwarf the energy resources available on Earth by multiple orders of magnitude. At long enough time scales, this will blow away even turning the Sahara into one big solar farm, even with regards to incremental cost. It may be a long ways out, but it's inevitable if we don't first bomb ourselves back to being earthbound. Issac Arthur: The Moon Industrial Complex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47MMNqKGxE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47MMNqKGxE It takes a lot more energy resources to exploit many space resources. However, note that this is subject to exponential growth. The more energy one can produce in space, the more resources can be converted to generate more energy to convert more resources. Planners of major powers may be able to forsee this exponential growth, and go to war over its potential.