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In a few months US will have an anti-islamic version of Putin. He is the one who withdrew from treaties you linked. > consideration to the harms done to non-co
by throw73737 2y ago
In a few months US will have an anti-islamic version of Putin. He is the one who withdrew from treaties you linked.
> consideration to the harms done to non-combatants, both in the sense of "civilians" and "neutral countries".
Knocking down Starlink is perfect version of no-harms strike. Nobody dies, only person negative affected is Musk and some techno bros.
- inemesitaffia 2y agoI'm here. I'll be affected along with 4 million others
- ben_w 2y ago> In a few months US will have an anti-islamic version of Putin With 45% probability, assuming he isn't assassinated. The tie with Musk would make your hypothetical very convenient for Iran as an empty threat though, so there's that. > Nobody dies Loads of people die from communication failures. More importantly, this would only even be a threat if it could actually cause a kessler cascade, because there's too many Starlink satellites to target directly even if you own SpaceX. This matters because such a cascade will also mess up everything else in close orbits regardless of nationality. It's like hypothesising someone might use CFCs as a chemical weapon: sure, if they want to make enemies with basically everyone all at the same time.