I just started thinking about it. Why is space exploration even that necessary? They’re spending so much money on it when we have so much problems in our own planet…
I just started thinking about it. Why is space exploration even that necessary? They’re spending so much money on it when we have so much problems in our own planet…
Wait? You’re saying that China using its trade power to pressure/coerce Norway, Sweden and Latvia independently and on separate occasions within the past decade is propaganda from the 70’s? The people making that propaganda must have been prescient!
no prescience needed; the american gov’t has literally been doing that since the 1920’s. lol
you would know this already if you spend your time reading these public domain file releases instead of uncritically ingesting propaganda.
What the US government is doing has exactly nothing to do with this though, and does exactly nothing to refute my point.
What’s relevant (since you’re advocating that we buy critical infrastructure from China) is what China is doing. It’s very well documented that they use their power to pressure countries when they can. Therefore, it’s a bad idea to make our critical infrastructure reliant on them. It’s much smarter to be self sufficient in building and maintaining our critical infrastructure (self-sufficiency can include working with allies/partners you have good reason to trust in the long term).
PS. I added quite a bit to my previous comment just before you responded, sorry about that.
i don’t thing anyone can argue against self reliancy in our critical infrastructure.
our disagreement is centered on the misguded belief that the western world (the united states in particular) will ever stop burning fossil fuels. the united states became self reliant on fossil fuels during the biden years and the epsteins will guarantee that americans will stay trapped in this climate killing version of self reliancy until they’ve squeezed every last drop of oil profits out of the united states and venezuela.