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https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3855/1 https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3855/1 Why do you think Outer Space Treaty will matter in event of a hot w
by ssnistfajen 3y ago
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3855/1 https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3855/1
Why do you think Outer Space Treaty will matter in event of a hot war between two nuclear superpowers? NPT was signed a year earlier and it has been continuously violated by signatory powers to this day.
- throwanem 3y agoYour own source describes the idea that this was a program design goal as a "myth," and clarifies that it was born of a Soviet capabilities analysis suggesting that this theoretically could be done with the Shuttle, not that there existed any evidence that it was intended. On the latter point you have your causation backward. The intent of treaties like the Outer Space Treaty was to reduce the likelihood of a hot war by interdicting the use of technologies that would destabilize the strategic balance.
- ssnistfajen 3y agoTreaties work until they don't, and what can cause an escalation is future knowledge beyond our abilities to predict. In event of a hot war, none of these treaties would've mattered.
- throwanem 3y agoObviously. Again, the point of the treaty is to make it less likely things will go that far. Otherwise, why bother with it at all?
- ssnistfajen 3y agoPolitical theatre, of course. But if you buy into that discourse then you are being duped. Do you think propaganda doesn't exist in your home country?
- throwanem 3y agoNo more than it doesn't in yours, comrade.
- ssnistfajen 3y agoEnjoy the blissful ignorance while it lasts for you.
- throwanem 3y agoWhat ignorance? That was sarcasm; I'm an American, but I like to hope I'm not a stupid American. It's fair to say that a promise not to risk escalation isn't the same as not risking escalation. But having made the promise used to count for something, too. Now? Especially with all the reciprocal geopolitical damnfoolishness going on in Eastern Europe, who the hell knows? That said, Russia has telescopes, and the X-37B by all reports isn't as stealthy as its designers would like it to be. While the absurdity of US (and Russian!) military planners is always hard to overestimate, I'd still be surprised to learn anyone seriously expected to successfully steal a march this way.