Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Russians In Space...Well, Maybe Not Much Longer || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. Efficiency and resilience are competing interests. Democracies trade out the political efficiency of despotic simplicity for a more expensive and convoluted but ultimately more adaptable form of government.
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  2. All the damage happened on the ground. The only space debris might be satellites they lose control of before it's able to get in touch with the remaining ground stations.
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  3. Depends on the altitude. A low orbiting spy satellite will just fall in and burn up. A mid-range GLONASS bird strike could cause problems, but between LEO and Geostationary is not that crowded to begin with.
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  4. Continuously staffing, maintaining, and securing it from Russia's adversaries costs how much though?
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  5. Not to the same accuracy at speed, as the openly available services are deliberately degraded and more easily spoofed/jammed than their encrypted military grade options.
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  6. Control of Crimea means control of the Black Sea, as well as much of Central Europe since the Danube River empties into the Black Sea along with all the cargo ships that sail up and down the Danube.
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  7. It's receive-only though, like GPS and Galileo. Beidou is the one constellation with limited two-way communication capabilities. And with any of these systems, a specific satellite just has to be flagged as "bad" to be simply ignored from the total positioning calculation.
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