🛰️ 18 European nations including the UK have agreed to explore and develop a framework for improved surveillance from space.
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The agreement will launch the Allied Persistent Surveillance from Space Initiative.
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Spying on the entire earth from space is not really a new thing.
Presumably, they’re announcing it to attempt to further agitate the Chinese.
Most of what NATO does now, outside of their little project in the Ukraine, is about agitating China (which is weird, because Tucker Carlson told me the United States is controlled by the Chinese).
RT:
NATO has announced a new space project that aims to create a fleet of spy satellites. The initiative, which includes NATO applicants Sweden and Finland, involves not only national but commercial assets.
The project, which is called ‘Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space’ (APSS), was unveiled on Wednesday, with a total of 16 current member states expected to chip in. According to a statement published on NATO’s website, the project will “help streamline data collection, sharing and analysis among NATO Allies and with the NATO command structure.”
Sweden and Finland applied for NATO membership in May of 2022, though their bids have yet to be approved by Hungary and Türkiye. However, despite not being formally admitted into the military bloc, both Stockholm and Helsinki are already participating in joint projects.
APSS will entail the creation of a “constellation,” named ‘Aquila’, of national as well as commercial satellites. It is expected to “provide essential support to NATO’s military missions and operations.”
The military bloc explained that APSS comes as part of NATO’s Overarching Space Policy adopted back in 2019.
At a meeting in London that same year, member states declared space a fifth operational domain, alongside air, land, maritime, and cyberspace.
We already have “Cold War logic,” where these people can justify to the public projects that would normally be considered immoral or beyond the pale with the reasoning that “we have to do it because the enemy is going to do it.”
In general, people don’t like the idea of every inch of the earth being constantly surveilled by satellites. But what choice do we have, what with these balloons coming at us?