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      When they say they are planning to develop them, what they mean is that they are planning to make their existence public. You should assume Jewish Space Lasers are literally a thing today.

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    And here I was, thinking the Jewish space lasers are just a silly conspiracy.

    When have conspiracy theories turned into trailers?

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    I do not trust an evil nation like Israel with weapons like this. Not at all.

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    Capable of targeting a specific orphan at a specific hospital and obliterating the whole fucking thing from high earth orbit.

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    Frankly terrifying. Like, imagine if the Nazis had been first to develop nuclear weapons kind of terrifying.

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    They want a global nuclear strike capability that doesn’t rely on making the US do the threat for them.

    Also probably a faster nuclear deployment time against Pakistan or I guess any other nuclear power.

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    So… How are they going to launch them?

    Reads a bit like the obsession a certain dictator had with wunderwaffe.

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      Elon Musk will probably gift them rockets. Given that his decision to cut USAid has already killed thousands of children, he certainly doesn’t seem to mind dead kids.

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        I know they are banking on that, but strategically it’s not the soundest investment.

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      America will do it for them. Israel doesnt have much of a space program that can even come remotely close developing any of these goals on its own, they use a deep partnership with NASA …aka they are gifted data and designs by bribed US politicians… or they flat out steal it, like they did with all of their nuclear material stolen from the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair

      they also dont have an economy large enough to fund researching any of this out or doing it. Israels entire GDP (PPP based) is only 600 billion. The tiny state of Massachusetts alone has a GDP of 780 billion… about 25% larger than Israels… just Massaschusetts. The city of Boston has a GDP of 610 million. And the whole US gdp is ~50 times what Israels is.

      Israel is reading out a list of what they will order Americans to provide for them for free so they can pretend they developed it themselves. Same as with the Israeli F-35 program and their naval tech. See how they pretend they have extended the F-35 with native tech to make it vastly superior to the US f-35: https://defense.info/air-power-dynamics/2025/06/israels-f-35i-adir-a-strategic-game-changer-in-middle-east-air-power/

      They are bullshitters, pedophiles, criminals, and welfare queens.

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      Israel has some launch capability, though they have to launch retrograde and don’t have that much payload capacity to LEO because of it.