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>They are conducting rendezvous and proximity operations in order to enable the execution of dynamic spacecraft operations; which in military terms means they are developing the TTPs to do these operations. And this isn’t new, in 2021 China showed that it could find, fix, track, target, pursue and grab another satellite, and then move it to a different orbital regime.
>In short, they are exercising and practicing for orbital warfare.
So? The US has been doing this and more for a long time.
Including having a class of satellites (Mentor/Orion) that attempts to intercept Chinese and Russian satellite communications by flying ridiculously close to them and then moving to the next.

There is also Silent barker.

Funnies part of the comment though
>gain positional advantage against those of democratic nations.
>democratic nations
Bruh.
Sometimes I wonder who they are trying to convince.
Is there anyone remaining that believes the West is democratic in any way, shape or form?

But even with all this nonsense aside and the fact that mutts have been doing this for ages, who is weaponizing space despite signing treaties promising not to?

>The judeomutt cries out in anguish as he strikes you.