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Originally Posted by moklianne
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And it would be so easy to convince citizens we need to do it.
"Look! Scary aliens are coming for us! We need to make space weapons! And spaceworth warships!"
Just like terrorism in the middle east. Al Qaeda is coming for us, we must invade Iraq, etc.
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more in reference to this you nimrod
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty
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Originally Posted by Nihilist_santa
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It would make sense. The U.S. and its main rivals are locked in M.A.D. so they have to resort to proxy wars and other less direct methods like cyber warfare, economic warfare etc etc. Weather war would be hard to trace and is far more devastating over a wider area Not to mention the demoralizing affects of such actions. Causing drought conditions for instance could lead to famine which leads to internal strife causing a revolt or coup. Then you send in recovery crews to profit from redevelopment. Pretty sweet deal these guys are working.
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causing a drought to start an uprising? why do that when we can freeze assets of a country's leader/s, effectively manipulate their economy, not physically harm any of its citizens other than what they do to themselves, and get lucky if they unite and rebel against their leader/s with US economic sanctions which are generally viewed as a positive measure by the international community. the international currency is the us dollar for a reason, but lots of people are impatient now and days. unfortunately.