DECRYPTION – Russia accumulates warnings against Western satellites that provide intelligence to Ukraine. The scenario of a star wars is no longer to be excluded.
«The war in space could begin“. The sentence is taken neither from Star Wars, nor from Moonraker, this part of James Bond which propelled the secret agent into the stars in 1979. But from a tweet by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on October 27th. The rebellious leader was reacting to a new threat from Russia about satellites, this time from Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the UN Disarmament Commission. The latter had just declared, from New York, that Western commercial satellites would become “legitimate targets of retaliationif they were used to support the Ukrainian war effort.
From the beginning of March, the Ministry of the Armed Forces was already warning of the danger of the conflict spreading to tens of thousands of kilometers from Earth. “What we imagined happens“, alerted General Friedling, commander in France of the space command. “We are on permanent watch in conjunction with our partners…
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