Russian 'nukes in space' scare by Biden admin is BS

 

                         Ground-based laser at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico
 

Remember in 2003 how the New York Times reported that Iraq had WMD which then justified the Bush administration's 'shock and awe' attack? At the time so-called 'intelligence agencies' in the US claimed that it was all true. 

It wasn't.

Fast forward to 2024 and we hear reports from the same corporate media rag that intel reveals Russia has a new super-duper nuclear weapon that can destroy US satellites in space. 

Suddenly its all over the news just days after the Vladimir Putin interview with Tucker Carlson is seen by hundreds of millions (maybe billions by now) around the world. 

Desperation hits the White House.  'We've got to come up with something big to trash Russia in order to get Congress to vote for the billions for the Ukraine war'. 

And so they did.

It's all BS.

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty banned weapons of 'mass destruction' in space. At the time the US and USSR were worried about one side blowing things up with nukes in space. Thus the incentive for the treaty.

Both sides today have anti-satellite weapons (ASAT) capabilities using kinetic weapons that just crash into a satellite - no explosives involved. So Russia would not need nukes to do the job if they wanted to. Likely lasers are also available to both sides to carry out the task as well.

The US last tested an ASAT in 2008 in Operation Burnt Frost when they launched an 'interceptor missile' from a Navy Aegis destroyer that went into space and knocked out an old US satellite.

US, India, China and Russia have developed anti-satellite weapons of some kind - mostly the kinetic variety.

The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to White House claims about the 'new secret Russian nuclear weapon' by saying:

“It’s clear that the White House is trying, by hook or by crook, to push Congress to vote on a bill to approve funding [for Ukraine]. We’ll see what tricks the White House will use,” he said.

PAROS

And remember that Russia and China every year for at least the last 25-30 years go to the UN and introduce a new treaty called Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space (PAROS) to ban all weapons that fall outside of the 1967 treaty. In other words, all the new high-tech space weapons that are not covered in the Outer Space Treaty.

The US and Israel routinely block the treaty negotiations (during both Republican and Democrat administrations) saying, 'There is no problem in space thus no need for a new treaty'. Very self serving.

I believe the Russians have a long history of generally honoring treaties while the US does not.

It was the US that pulled about of the ABM Treaty (Anti-ballistic missile) that outlawed the building, testing and deployment of 'missile defense' systems which are key elements in Pentagon first-strike attack planning. 

The US refuses to renounced first-strike while China and Russia have done so for many years.

So who is really the aggressor in space?

When the US claims it will be the 'Master of Space' (to 'control and dominate space and deny other nations access to space') one must examine closely just who is leading the race to militarize and weaponize space.

See the 1997 US Space Command document 'Vision for 2020' that lays that all out here.

Incidentally, the US Space Force was created in 2020 - right on schedule you might say.

Beware of those who promote corporate media reporting of White House lies and deception to keep war$ going.

Bruce