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A lot of things moving around i would say probably not i spoke earlier this evening with the head of the european space agency and the he said that you know basically we see the united nations moving into outer space he he had a very positive spin on things but what about the u.s. space force isn't that the militarization of space at least to some degree yes but we started militarizing space before we sent satellites up so this isn't anything new which is one of the arguments about whether we need something called a space force or something else but yeah it is a push by the part on the part of...

Their militarizing space to do what? >> well first of all they recognize how dependent we are on space technology. so they have many, many years ago they began to develop antisatellite kill capability. and now it is a major endeavor ofy theirs. and here's the reason. obviously, gps and all of the location would be taken it out by that all of our communications. but all of our weapons -- so when you see crews missiles plying and -- and position guided ammunition coming out of airplane as, all of that is controlled by satellite technology. and they would actually bring us to our knees. that they...

As mentioned before we left, they are also militarizing space. the russians are too. we will get there in a moment. the militarizing space to do what. >> first of all they recognize how dependent we are on space technology. they have many, many years ago, they began to develop anti- satellite kill capability and now it's a major endeavor of theirs. here's the reason, obviously gps and all the location would be taken out by that. all of our communications but all of our weapons, when you see crews missiles flying and precision guided missiles coming out of airplanes, all of that is controlled b...

As mentioned before we left, they are also militarizing space. the russians are too. we will get there in a moment. the militarizing space to do what. >> first of all they recognize how dependent we are on space technology. they have many, many years ago, they began to develop anti- satellite kill capability and now it's a major endeavor of theirs. here's the reason, obviously gps and all the location would be taken out by that. all of our communications but all of our weapons, when you see crews missiles flying and precision guided missiles coming out of airplanes, all of that is controlled b...

>> no, it isn't all about economics. i think we focused a lot on these debates on the middle east and that's fine. on iran and so forth. peace process. we need to talk about russia and china. china is moving on all fronts, militarily, militarizing space, aggressively seeking our technology and willing partners to transfer technology to us, russia was supposed to be a reset relationship. remember that reset button they got wrong? how is that worked out for us with russia? why today should countries that are climbing up, countries like india, why should they look to our system today? i've asked ...