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Sure but that was so propaganda heavy nothing can be trusted from that era. What do people actually think today and why? Surely we live in such a free society n
by PittleyDunkin 2y ago
Sure but that was so propaganda heavy nothing can be trusted from that era. What do people actually think today and why? Surely we live in such a free society now people are actually free to explain their viewpoints and reasoning.
Besides, invoking the cold war explains little (aside from invoking the propaganda of the time). The soviets live-streamed the moon landing. The idea that they were necessarily antagonistic is simply inaccurate. Not to mention what they would gain from fucking with satellites remains unexplained.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> what they would gain from fucking with satellites remains unexplained You don’t see what America might have gained if it could de-orbit the USSR’s early-warning satellites at will?
- seabass-labrax 2y agoYou might have chosen a bad example, as both sides had many early warning satellites, and such a catastrophic 'failure' in any tactically significant proportion of them would immediately put both sides on high alert. It would be much more valuable to target individual reconnaissance or communications satellites in order to make a 'blind spot' to support a particularly important secret project, but even this scenario would be scarcely credible.
- atoav 2y agoDoes space race say anything to you? One way of winning a race is to become faster, another is to make others slower. You know sabotage isn't just spy novel stuff.