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I'm going to suggest human error. There's no good reason for something which amounts to an international embarrassment, including putting cosmonaut's lives at r
by roomey 5y ago
I'm going to suggest human error. There's no good reason for something which amounts to an international embarrassment, including putting cosmonaut's lives at risk.
Also note how quiet Russia is about it.
- bitcharmer 5y agoI don't think the Russians care at all. They keep doing harmful things because they know they can. For a direct example have a look at Litvinienko poisoning or skripal attacks. This behaviour from Russia will not stop.
- drran 5y agoThe longer we procrastinate, the higher price we will pay.
- jacquesm 5y agoAre you suggesting that war with Russia today is preferable to war with Russia in the future? Please clarify.
- drran 5y agoRF is already at (semi-cold) war with West, so peace with Russia today is preferable to peace with Russia in the future.
- stevenwoo 5y agoWe did nothing when Russia invaded and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.
- tsimionescu 5y agoMany of the major powers have destroyed satellites in orbit - the USA as as early as 1985 and as recently as 2008, China in 2008, India in 2019. Russia's show of force is nothing special.
- DFHippie 5y agoThis is whataboutism. As others above have pointed out, the India events and US events post 1985 are not in fact comparable.
- tsimionescu 5y agoIt's not whataboutism, it's pointing out there is nothing unique about this event. What they did is bad, but unfortunately common.
- DFHippie 5y agoIt isn't common. The last time the US did it was in 1985, almost 40 years ago.
- jacquesm 5y agoPointing out hypocrisy is not whataboutism. If the US wanted to have the moral high ground on this issue they shouldn't have done it themselves. This goes for a lot of things where the US had a 'first', and which other countries then more or less out of necessity follow.
- DFHippie 5y ago> If the US wanted to have the moral high ground on this issue they shouldn't have done it themselves. In 1985. The US has tested antisat weapons since, yes, but not in this reckless fashion.
- simonh 5y agoWe’ve learned a lot more about the risks of these test since 1985, particularly with Kessler’s paper "Collisional cascading: The limits of population growth in low Earth orbit" in 1991. The implications are much better understood now. Plus alternative test regimes, such as the tests in lower orbits, have shown that tests at this altitude just aren’t necessary. It seems highly unlikely that there’s much about this system that couldn’t have been tested just fine against a safer target.