U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general

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Re: U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general

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Post by randomopining » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 9:36 AM UTC

dirtyid wrote: post #256

randomopining wrote: post #185

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I always said the same thing. Give those 3 nukes and then declare defensive strike doctrine. My military friend says “it’s not a good idea” but I don’t see why. Call their bluff.

>I don’t see why Because simply PRC has never been deterred by nukes over sovereignty issues. It has fought with nuclear US, USSR and India over core interests less interest than TW. Former two while PRC wasn't nuclear power herself. Also because TW is thoroughly infiltrated by PRC spies, and TW even hinting nuclearizing gives PRC legitimate casus belli to go to war with relatively few consequences due to proliferati…

So you’re saying CCP doesn’t care about getting nuked or doesn’t think Taiwan would use in a hot war.

Maybe they didn’t care about nukes in the 50’s and 60’s because they were just in the midst of war and suffering, and Mao was a fervent ideologue.

Plus Taiwan isn’t any material threat to the mainland. It’s not a core security concern, as seen by the mainlands transformation from 1970-now. If it was, and the US was using it to choke off and destroy the CCP - it would have done so decades ago.

I think their whole Taiwan thing is trash and we need to call their bluff on it. Arm all 3 and declare defensive use.

Re: U.S. satellites are being attacked every day according to Space Force general

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Post by 1_player » Tue, Dec 07, 2021, 2:57 PM UTC

PoignardAzur wrote: post #290

1_player wrote: post #277

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That's not what I'm implying at all. I'm saying Western propaganda is so thick and widespread only absolute totalitarian regimes can control it, otherwise it reaches everywhere and we're all brain-washed by it. There is no denying the CCP is a totalitarian regime.

I mean, I guess you have a point from a certain perspective, but that sounds a lot like the mindset of a cult. "Widespread propaganda that the entire world believes except for the select few that live in a tightly controlled bubble where anybody who speaks out is violently silenced" has a lot of common properties with "things that are true".

That's an incorrect argument of yours. Things that are true are, more often than not, widespread. It does not segue that an idea that is widespread has to be true.

The very point and raison d'être of propaganda is to repeat an idea so often that people start to believe it, even if it has no basis in reality.

But then again, plenty of books and philosopher-hours have been spent on the topic of "truth", which honestly becomes a semantic rabbit hole I'm not interested in diving in.

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