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This is whataboutism. As others above have pointed out, the India events and US events post 1985 are not in fact comparable.
by DFHippie 5y ago
This 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.