Without those satellites, remote drone piloting can't be done. Cruise missile targeting can't be done. And that's even considering GPS.
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Those satellites are highly vulnerable. Their delta-V stores are needed for orbital maintenance.
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But they're very hard to get to... only China, Russia, and the ESA can reasonable send satellites into GEO.
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But now with the ties our incoming administration has to Putin, this means that that the balance of power in space has shifted dramatically.
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We've known for a while now that any large scale conflict would spread into space, if not start there. But now we're basically immune.
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Look at what has happened historically when an autocrat controls a military that is immune to opposition. This is not normal.
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GPS isn't in GEO. I'm not sure if that is what you are saying though.
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Yeah, unrelated, meant them as two separate things
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