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Return of Star Wars! Iron Dome for America calls for space-based interceptors .
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/01/trumps-iron-dome-for-america-calls-for-space-based-interceptors/I can't get past the idiot hyperbole here "like has never been seen before, the greatest dome of them all"
So go read it if you like. It's another of his executive odors.
Some of us made a decent living working on SDI many years ago.
Of course, he could just negotiate away missile threats from Russia, China and North Korea.
But then there's Canada and Mexico, hostile foreign powers at the moat.
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Return of Star Wars! Iron Dome for America calls for space-based interceptors . (Original Post)
usonian
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Bernardo de La Paz
(52,062 posts)1. Now MpTy Greene will do 180 and back jewish space lasers?
Gore1FL
(22,083 posts)2. I have $100 that says he doesn't know anything about orbital physics. nt
Dave Bowman
(4,320 posts)3. "the greatest dome of them all"
He's totally delirious, again.
Midnight Writer
(23,340 posts)4. "The greatest dome of all! And Russia and China will pay for it!"
usonian
(15,382 posts)5. Canada and Mexico had damn well pay up.
Or "we" will send all incoming missiles there!
Everything is one form of extortion or another.
Frickin keptocracy. He's trying to steal more money than Musk has. So damn jealous.
I posted a dig on another site, on "give me payola or you get tariffs" and didn't get downvoted.
Yet.
And I'm not expecting California to adopt Jim Crow laws in order to get disaster aid.