BRIAN BERLETIC
The New Atlas

Aaron Bushnell-“I will no longer be complicit in genocide.”

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One of the last things Aaron Bushnell wrote was: "Many of us like to ask ourselves, "What would I do if I was alive during Slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or the apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?" The Answer is, you're doing it. Right now." The world would be a better place if people like Aaron Bushnell lived on, fought day after day, onward into the future. The courage Aaron Bushnell possessed to do what he did, would better serve us all if he had used it day after day, for as long as possible. Waking up to the reality of US foreign policy leaves one isolated, angry, frustrated, and confused. We all have to work on creating a path from there to here today, where we all work together to make the world a better place tomorrow.

ADDENDUM

Pushing back against the Big Imperial Lie is everyone's duty. Wherever and whenever it may rear its ugly head. Like the Navalny Psyop, for example. 

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Brian Berletic

Brian Berletic
THE NEW ATLAS
THIS IS A REPOST • FIRST RUN NOV 22, 2023

SpaceX's Starship & the Geopolitical Implications of Reusable Rockets

Musk, notes Berletic, is triumphing because he is departing from the standard capitalist "unipolar" template of putting profits ahead of purpose. 

The New Atlas

Nov 22, 2023

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US-based SpaceX’ Starship program and its implications on geopolitics…
SpaceX continues developing its Starship program after its 2nd integrated flight test (IFT2) on September 18, 2023. Starship, when operational, will be the first fully reusable launch system able to recover and reuse both the 1st stage booster like SpaceX’ current Falcon family of rockets, but also the 2nd stage. Starship is also the largest, most powerful launch system on Earth at the moment.

Reusability drives costs down and enables nations with access to such systems to establish orbital infrastructure quicker, cheaper, and on larger scales. SpaceX’ Falcon 9 rockets have already allowed SpaceX to create the Starlink constellation of satellites providing lower-latency satellite communication with greater coverage than any other current or even planned networks.

In the event of conflict in space where nations begin targeting navigational, surveillance, and communication satellites, the nation with the ability to launch new satellites into space quicker and cheaper will have a clear advantage.

Resources in the Earth’s solar system vastly dwarf resources found on Earth and can support a multiplanetary civilization on a scale of size and abundance hitherto unimaginable, reusability is the key to tapping this potential;

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References:
NSF - After upgrades, Starship achieves numerous successes during second test flight (November 17, 2023): https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/...
Our World in Data - Cost of space launches to low Earth orbit: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR / SOURCE

Brian Berletic is an American strategic geoanalyst and anti-imperialist activist/vlogger and writer residing in Thailand.