'Space Weapons' Steals Headlines From Avdeevka Collapse, Time For Washington To Come To its Senses

It Is Past Time for Washington to Come to Its Senses

Paul Craig Roberts

It appears that the pigmies in Washington have chosen the wrong country for the role of preferred enemy if there is truth to yesterday’s reports that Russia has deployed or has in development an orbital nuke platform that can drop nuclear warheads out of orbit without warming and with no chance of interception.  Recently I reported on Steven Starr’s new book that  one, two or three high altitude blasts, depending on altitude, is all it takes to collapse the US and leave it in total chaos without having to do any ground damage. 

 See:

https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/02/07/the-united-states-has-zero-national-security/

Brighteon’s report says the orbital system is live:

According to sources, Russia has just gone live with an orbital nuke platform that can drop nuclear warheads out of orbit at any time, detonating over key U.S. cities and military basis without warning and with zero chance of being intercepted. 

Capitol Hill is in a panic, describing Russia’s new technology as “destabilizing” and calling for urgent action to somehow counter Russia’s military weapons advantage.

The U.S. military, meanwhile, is too busy being “woke” to build any new technology. Russia has orbital nukes, but the U.S. Navy has drag queens and trannies in charge. Do not wonder how this ends…

It is too early to know the truth of these reports or whether this is just another scare story, such as “Saddam Hussein’s Weapons of Mass Destruction” and  “Muslim Terrorists,” to gin up new military spending for a replacement “threat” now that Russia has won the war in Ukraine.

What it does show is the stupidity of a dysfunctional Tower of Babel such as the United States picking a fight with a highly functional and unified society as Russia.  America’s liberal interventionists superseded by the hegemonic neoconservatives have created a dangerous foe for the US that Washington has no chance of defeating.  Russia already with deployed hypersonic ICBMs that randomly alter trajectory in flight apparently is adding to its dominance weapons fired from space.  If Washington cannot bring itself to annoy Israel by expelling the neoconservatives from their hold on US foreign policy, the idiot West has run its course.

Planetary Scare: Russian Doomsday Space Weapon Steals Headlines of Avdeevka Collapse

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Jake Sullivan broke the news to a wide-eyed pressroom, keeping mum but claiming he will be having what sounded like emergency meetings with ‘the gang of eight’—these are the top Congressional leaders who are privy to the most classified information. 

Of course, the irony of the scare tactic was not lost on some:

The customary ‘leaks’ followed soon after and pointed to some type of new Russian “space capability” that reportedly threatens US and its partners, though Sullivan seemed to even imply that it’s a threat to the population while claiming he didn’t want to ‘cause mass panic.’ Ironically—or not—everything about his announcement appeared designed to do precisely that. Gee.

The announcement sparked a swell of theories on the internet from an endless array of people who aren’t really knowledgeable on the subject matter, and used their ignorance to further the attempt at scaremongering. And most likely this was the whole point: people immediately and rightfully pointed to the obvious timing of this scare tactic.

The Senate had just passed its side of the Ukraine-Israel aid bill and the bill once more had the door slammed shut in its face in the House, courtesy of Speaker Johnson and co. So what do they do? Predictably roll out some deus ex machina doomsday weapon totally out of thin air to terrify defiant Republicans into enriching the MIC with another cool ~$100 billion.

But getting to what it actually is, as I said wild rumors flew about everything from the ‘Rods of God’ kinetic weapons, to FOBS space nukes for hitting cities in the same way a conventional ICBM would, to EMP weapons and beyond.

Let’s try to demystify it, and see what the actual platform realistically and most likely does. 

The main misconception around the usage of this potential weapon from armchair ‘experts’ on social media revolves around a misunderstanding of how satellite warfare works. To sum it up very briefly: everyone knows Russia has anti-satellite missiles that can fly into orbit and shoot down satellites. But in the modern age, this ability has become nearly meaningless and, in some ways, neutralized by the advent of mass saturation of small satellite constellations.

Anti-satellite weapons like Russia’s A-235 ‘Nudol’ are some of the most advanced and expensive assets, and are primarily designed to take out the large flagship Electro-Optical style spysats like US’s ‘Keyhole’ systems, which are $4-5 billion dollar a pop and few in number. Yes, it’s critically important to have the capability to take out these E/O satellites, which create regular high-res optical imagery of military targets. 

However, there are many other types of much smaller and cheaper satellites like ELINT/SIGINT and GPS ones which number in the thousands, and most certainly cannot be taken out by conventional anti-satellite missiles like the Nudol as they are simply too numerous. The latest and biggest intractable problem is of course SpaceX’s Starlink, which now numbers nearly ~4,000 total small satellites in orbit at this time. There is simply no way to take them all out via manual targeting of each, one by one. 

So: what is the only other option? To blow vast swaths of them out at the same time, either via space Kesslerization, of which I wrote about several times, or via triggering several large nuclear/EMP explosions to wipe out entire constellations in one go, even if it doesn’t trigger total breakaway Kesslerization of common orbits.

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