At a hearing held in the US Congress on Wednesday local time, American space experts, government officials, and members of Congress reached or reinforced a unified understanding: “For the US and its partners not to be on the moon when others are on the moon, is unacceptable.” The US and its allies should win the 21st century “space race” and lead a “rules-based international order” there before China creates its own “undesirable norms.”
In plain language, this statement suggests that after the US, along with its allied nations, has used the banner of the so-called “rule-based international order” to engage in geopolitical efforts to contain China on Earth, they now want to apply the same tactics in outer space. They view the moon as the first “arena” for competition among nations beyond Earth. From this perspective, the true purpose of the US “return to the moon” plan is far from pure. It goes against the universal human desire to explore and utilize outer space for peaceful purposes. The extension of US geopolitical strategies from “land” to “space” is not just a significant escalation in competition but, in a sense, a step backward.
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Weapons on the moon sound hilariously impractical and impracticable. Critical support for imperialist boondoggles.
They could put them in space though. You know that soviet project for partially orbital bombardment system?
If we want to get technical there are already weapons in space courtesy of the National Recon Office, just that they’re used to create a panopticon and gather intel.
Well yes, but I was thinking more in terms of actual nuclear missiles. IIRC it’s supposed to be illegal internationally (there are treaties and all), and USSR scrapped the aforementioned orbital drop system because of it. But do we really expect yanks to abide by the treaties they enforced on other countries?
It’s possible and not that impractical due to low gravity of the moon, but one had to be Murican to consider it right now, since putting them there would require colossal effort and those would be pure revenge mass destruction weapons anyway.
So the entire issue shows more that US minds are in gutter to think of military first and only and also immediately project their paranoia on others.
They tried with Project A119.
They didn’t do it because they realized that would be a horrifically bad move to detonate nukes on the moon.
Mr. Show - Blow Up the Moon
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