The first clue is that all the experts conceded in the 1980s that
there was no such thing as a "shield" against MAD, or "mutually assured
destruction." They pretended that there was after the administration
stumbled into a PR coup. In the early 1980s, a massive global nuclear
freeze movement was underway, and Reagan took a dive in the polls. When
he naively began talking about a "shield" as an antidote to MAD, his
numbers went up and the freeze movement died down. He kept talking, and
aides scurried to make it a reality. That was Star Wars in a nutshell.
The second clue is even more relevant today. It turns out that what
worried the Soviet Union then, and Russia and China today, is that the
U.S. is the only country in a position to develop space-based weaponry.
These will be "defensive" in public rhetoric, but offensive in reality
(just reprogram some chips). Someday, lasers from space may police the
world on behalf of the U.S. and its elite transnationalist clientele.
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