I wouldn’t consider old satellite trash as “weapons”…

Wasn’t their a longstanding no weapons in space treaty signed. What a surprise.

Kessler syndrome here we come.

but if you said the same thing just three days ago, you would have been called a conspiracy theorist

The Soviet Almaz 4 space station had a fucking cannon, in the 70’s

This was a foregone conclusion as soon as they created a military branch called United States Space Force.

Incidentally the documentary series Space Force covers it very well, shame it got cancelled in its prime made by Netflix and then they did their usual.