Don't forget that the chinese agression in the south china sea probably wouldn't have happened unless Russia and NK are willing to back China up. I don't think they would risk such aggression with the US and its allies without their own allies.
In saying that, don't forget also that Russia has satellite-killing robots in space and the US is heavily reliant upon satellites, but that will change once Elon Musk gets the ball rolling and starts deploying his satellite network. That will create redundancy sufficient enough for the US military to use Starlink as a backup.
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"DMSP Flight 13 provided critical atmospheric data for flight operations in Operation Allied Force, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom," Air Force officials wrote in a statement emailed to Space.com. "During its lifetime, DMSP Flight 13 provided thousands of hours of weather imagery to the Air Force Weather Agency and the U.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center."
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I didn't think for one minute that DMSP-F13 could spontaneously explode in space. Even if it was from old age.
https://www.space.com/28713-military...-dmsp-f13.html
Note also that DMSP 5D-3 19 also failed, in a similar reported manner.
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/kosmos-2491.htm
https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/d...lode-in-space/
What are they using in those things? Lithium iron cobalt cells? hell no.
http://russianspaceweb.com/Cosmos-2499.html
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...sed-to-be-four
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...-we-know-about
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When Poblete mentioned “other” activities, she was likely referring to three additional inspector satellites that the Russians launched between 2013 and 2015. These space-based systems, also known as Kosmos-2491, Kosmos-2499, and Kosmos-2504, conducted a number of apparent tests, getting relatively close to various pieces of space debris, before going dormant in 2016. The next year, Russia turned one of them back on and sent it near to a portion of a Chinese weather satellite, which that country had destroyed in a ground-based anti-satellite test in 2007.
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https://www.economist.com/science-an...ewing-in-orbit
Then you have kinetic weapons which can do as much damage as an asteroid hitting the earth. We haven't even begun to cover that yet in this post.
https://taskandpurpose.com/gear-tech...t-kep-weaponry
No radiation. Plenty of casualties. Plenty of damage. Thankfully its decades away.
The biggest threats I see coming from Russia/China/NK are ground forces and space based EMP blasts and attacks on US Military communications infrastructure.
So boats with soldiers on them and EMP blasts in space above our heads.
Now if you'll excuse me I have shopping to do and Crackling Pork to cook.