Reply To: Space Force?

[dicehexParticipant 12xp 2]

Quote from OP:
“It should be noted that placing weapons in space is a violation of international treaties to which the US is a signatory. It should also be noted that nothing in the Trump announcement changes the US position and that there are no plans to put weapons in space. But we are talking about Trump so …
Feel to interpret as you wish.
What the announcement does do is study whether there should be another, co-equal, armed service.
Only Congress can create such a new service.”

The US has never ever been particularly concerned with international treaties. What is anyone going to do about it? Nothing.
Military satellites are already in space.
Trump is no different in the end to any other president. Empire rolls on.
Congress is not remotely democratic. In the sense that there is no actual democracy in the country known as the US or their allies, because here:
(PDF link to Gilens and Page 2014, Princeton and NW Uni)
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

So, no ordinary citizen of any Western nation really, has any say over any of this, because we have no political power at all. Full stop.
So, if some new president decides to put weaponry in space against International Law, no one can really do anything about it. But it isn’t just the President, because no President can actually act without some sort of support from the seriously wealthy and influential agents who form the economic power base of the US Empire.

Unless something changes, you may as well accept that space will absolutely be militarized, and probably already is being militarized.
Edit: spelling fwiw.

This is my first post here. I expect it will not go down well with those who want a gaming community sans real political commentary relating to abject despair for our collective future as a species.