Thread by @AmoneyResists

Trump’s plan to rip U.S. Space Command HQ out of Colorado and dump it in Alabama is reckless, wasteful, and dangerous. It also dramatically weakens our national security at the worst possible time (THREAD 🧵).

Space Command is the nerve center of America’s nuclear defense. It detects launches anywhere on earth, tracks ICBMs, coordinates interagency responses, and protects satellite comms in a crisis. In a nuclear emergency, every second counts — moving it disrupts all of that.

Colorado Springs already has the necessary infrastructure to house its HQ e.g. Peterson, Schriever, Cheyenne Mountain, Buckley — basically everything Space Command needs, is already present in CO and fully operational now. Alabama has none of this whatsoever.

Relocating Space Command to Alabama would:

• Waste $300M+ in taxpayer money
• Set our space defense back years
• Disrupt Colorado’s 55,000-person space workforce
• Hand an incalculable advantage to adversaries like China, Russia, Iran and North Korea

Even Trump’s own Space Force commander and the Pentagon’s IG warned this relocation risks dangerous gaps in readiness that adversaries are eager to exploit. They’ve also warned that expertise lost in the move could take us *decades* to reacquire.

There are literally zero reasons to do this in terms of security. So why do it? Politics. Alabama is a deep-red state Trump won by 47 points. He’s sacrificing our nuclear and orbital readiness to reward his base with phantom jobs and turning national security into a campaign prop

Bottom line: Trump isn’t just playing politics — he’s playing Russian roulette with our lives. Moving Space Command isn’t strategy, it’s sabotage. And that’s one thing Trump seems hellbent on doing to America at every conceivable opportunity.

He works for our enemies.

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