[Lifelarper]

> sensible reasons of why

The last few weeks have had some extreme rhetoric coming out of the US, claiming that Europe is about to be invaded by Russia, so extreme that even Euro allies find it a stretch.

Maybe this doesn't make the news for many Americans but in Europe it certainly doesnt go unnoticed when powerful governments talk about full scale war on your doorstep.

Now there's one country on Earth with a magnitude more spy sats than anyone else, let's call them X they are making these claims against country Y, in response Y demonstrates its ASAT capabilities for the world to see.

Is it really that hard to understand?

https://time.com/6116867/us-warns-russia-invade-ukraine/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/amid-tensions-with-russ...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/05/politics/bill-burns-moscow-uk...

[iSnow]

Country X isn't just crying wolf to smear Y here. Y invaded a neighbouring country years ago and is again concentrating troops at the border.

And it still doesn't answer why the Russians chose to destroy a huge sat (more fragments) built by the USSR (more material to fragment) at a relatively high orbit (more time for fragments to destroy other sats). They could have done the thing India did and ram a small-ish sat at a low orbit and the fragments would be gone within a couple of months.

Instead they chose to even endanger their own cosmonauts on the ISS.

[Abishek_Muthian]

Would it be far-fetched to imagine that Y is doing this to make a particular orbital trajectory useless for the future placement of a highly sophisticated spy satellite or spy plane from X?