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Of course they don't trigger nuclear war, that wasn't the point. The point is that they trigger detection systems. We know exactly what happened to Kosmos 1408,
by sigmoid10 3y ago
Of course they don't trigger nuclear war, that wasn't the point. The point is that they trigger detection systems. We know exactly what happened to Kosmos 1408, including all actors and events, down to every minute. We even have a Wikipedia article listing all those details that you were able to dig up easily. Compare that to the undersee cables that got cut, where we will probably never know exactly what happened. If we cought someone red handed while destroying critical infrastructure, that would be a pretty good casus belli.
- ceejayoz 3y ago> If we cought someone red handed while destroying critical infrastructure, that would be a pretty good casus belli. We're not going to go to war because someone openly took out a Starlink node to send Musk a message. Not unless we were already going to do it for other reasons.
- serf 3y agoI find that hard to believe. It's not that it's a message to Elon; that would be a message of air supremacy to the entire world. There is no way that wouldn't provoke a pretty drastic reaction of some sort from groups that seek to hold the title of 'owners of the sky'.
- ceejayoz 3y agoCase in point: Russians have taken down US drones in recent months. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/16/politics/us-military-video-drone-russian-jet/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/16/politics/us-military-video-dr... No war. We send a grumpy note to their ambassador and just consider it a minor acceptable consequence of obliterating significant chunks of their armed forces in a proxy war elsewhere.
- sigmoid10 3y agoThese US drones were operating in a theatre of war. Things would turn sour very quickly if they shot down civilian critical infrastructure far away from active warzones.