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1/ Please don’t fall for the “Space Force” jokes. Trump making the militarization of space our national policy literally pits the US against the entire world. Let’s go into some background.

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.@POTUS: "My new national strategy for space recognizes that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea. We may even have a 'Space Force.'"

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Mauricio "Latino Temperament" Chávez

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Trump didn't start it. Can't really blame him. V2 rockets, sputniks, ICBMs, those all came first in "space" militarization

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Everything you just named is a land-based system, and is not relevant to the treaties covering militarized space.

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Mauricio "Latino Temperament" Chávez

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You are correct, but they inhabit some area of space, at some determinant amount of time. It was just a matter of time before they became a permanent fixture in space.

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The treaty prohibits space-based weapons.

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Correct. All respect, Mauricio - but I’d suggest some deeper reading of the issue.

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