Thread by @Semiogogue

Finally figured out why the whole 'Moon Landing Never Happened' thing got started. It's bullshit agitprop produced by America's enemies. You might ask why? Well, follow this THREAD and see...

Hypersonic weapons are currently all the rage. The Russians are working on a nuclear powered cruise missile that can run forever – more or less - in the upper atmosphere, maneuvering and coming down at incredible speed whenever required.

China is working on all sorts of hypersonic weapons, hoping that missiles operating at incredible speeds can be used to asymmetrically offset the enormous military advantages enjoyed by the US – particularly with carrier strike groups.

Hypersonic weapons can get going really fast because they get into the upper atmosphere, or just outside it, in order to speed up with very little resistance. Then they come roaring back down to earth at heretofore unseen velocities.

One way to deal with this would be to throw up sattelites that might be able to address such threats – to some extent anyway. Or even larger stations in orbit. But what if there were an even more substantial base, beyond the lower orbital reaches cluttered by existing satellites?

What if control of the moon will be central to the future of global military dominance? In such a situation the nature of the territorial claim, and its primacy – not to mention its authenticity – will be of critical importance.

If you don't believe me watch the international spats now erupting about Arctic access (and even Antarctic access). The standard approach of Russia and China – for decades – has been to peddle disinformation, distorting and eroding where they can't make a frontal assault.

THAT, my friends, is why there's been such a push to inculcate the whole 'we never went to the moon' bullshit. If China & others can eat away our claim's foundations, it will be that much easier to mobilize resistance against US moves to militarize the moon. Or so it seems to me.