>>The reason we shot it down is because we didn't want the Chinese to get our sensitive equipment.
That works for me. Sounds like a good reason to shoot it down.It's the international protest over shooting it down that's so vile in its hypocrisy.
>> We could carve up the moon, but only if the Chinese would agree to pay for it.
Not if we had the "madman president" I postulated.Over the objections of business interests -- such as whatever Chinese business interests had photos of Bill Clinton having sex with a raccoon and used them to blackmail Clinton into signing the 2000 China trade deal -- Madman Prez would opt out of globalism.
Madman Prez would cancel all foreign debt, invalidate all foreign-held US securities, T-bills, and domestic property holdings, and precipitate a global depression.
Looking like a bipolar off his meds, or Dirty Harry played as a Padddy Chayevsky character*, Madman Prez would address the nation about his ongoing Moon Sculpture Program, even as the first missiles went lunar.
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