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… i thought international treaties explicitly say no space weapons. ughhhh fucking wh
by carterschonwald 20d ago
… i thought international treaties explicitly say no space weapons. ughhhh fucking wh
- Arubis 20d agoLaws are for the little people, obviously.
- krunck 20d agoAnd you think America cares about treaties?
- Arubis 20d agoHistorically it did, so long as the politically privileged class of USians were among the folks that would be advantaged by those treaties. Anti-nuke proliferation and CFC restriction treaties worked. Treaties with native populations were ignored and violated whenever convenient; now they get occasional acknowledgement in speeches but no actual change or action. I would’ve put space weaponry in the first category.
- razerbeans 20d agoFTA it says the treaty covers "weapons of mass destruction". But historically (at least prior to the 2000's), there was an unspoken rule of not weaponizing space. I think that's changed in the last ~20 years and recall covered of China sending kinetic weapons into space.