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They are setting themselves up for a lifetime of disappointment. Even ignoring the limited impact US voters have on foreign policy, Hamas is just extremely unpopular, and getting less popular with time, while Israel is quite positively viewed overall in the US.
For the US to take a more pro-Palestine stance, Palestine distancing themselves from Iran is likely needed. The White House is not realistically going to drop their main ally in the middle east to help an Iranian proxy force, potentially destabilizing the entire region, just to have the voters that pushed for it forget all about it a week later when a celebrity does something.
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Prove that universities discriminate against asians? They brag about it. Public money should not go to semi segregated universities. You are asking for tax money from asian people to go to schools they stand not realistic chance of ever getting into because the schools admin don't like them.
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If that was a realistic possibility, that would be great.
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Regardless though, reading more about it, it seems extraordinarily unfeasible.
I really wasn't. What killed the program was budget cuts. It's technological feasibility was seen as extremely high.
For example countries would invest far more into hypersonic missiles which brilliant pebbles would be useless against.
Boost glide vehicles have almost the same initial boost phase of an ICBM. They are meant to defend against mid course interception, but are just as vulnerable in the boost phase as a regular ICBM, and ore vulnerable in the terminal phase because of lower overall speed.
Air breathing hypersonic missiles without a boost phase are a possibility, but none yet exist, and the chances any of them would have the range to cross the pacific is slim. They would also have massively limited payloads.
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As long as the racism persists, why hand them money?
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Brilliant pebble was not a direct energy weapon.
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And does Brilliant Pebbles work?
Yes, it was the favored system in the late Cold War and was considered a low technological risk. It was mostly a recombination of existing capabilities in a new context.
and violates other treaties regarding not weaponizing space.
The Soviet Union put auto cannons on space stations, and tried to launch a laser satellite. That treaty was more aspirational than practical.
This isn't even getting into that directed energy weapons have limited range because of flaring, atmospheric disturbances, and have relatively easy counter measures like applying coatings that dissipate heat/energy.
It’s kinetic, not directed energy,
Putin or Xi Jingping would act far far far more aggressively in their foreign policy if they felt the US's nuclear response was unilaterally nullified.
They would, but thankfully it’s the US with an advantage in this field. So expect them to act far, far, far more cooperative. Imagine if instead of fighting ww3 over Taiwan, and risking the end of the world, Xi could be convinced peace is in his interests?
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A relatively cheap defense against anti-ballistic missiles would be to deploy decoy vehicles and simply saturate the missile defense shield. Which is something that happens already.
That’s why brilliant pebble intercepts in the boost phase, before the decoys can separate.
There were a number of treaties that have been between nuclear powers to put limits on there use. Acting like its impossible, when it has in fact been done seems ignorant.
We’ve never gotten close to actual disarmament.
