Russians: Your Satellite Shoot-Down Plans are Lies

Let me advertise my intel ignorance. What narrative are the Russians trying to create lately? Are they making a pitch that the U.S. is bent on global conquest and that only Russia can save the world (or at least the dregs of the world who will listen)? If so, which is worse -- the status quo or an axil of evil dominated and controlled by Russia?

Again, these questions are borne of my ignorance and rank curiosity; I'm not pushing any theories here.

This exercise has as much to do with demonstrating US ABM systems as Sputnik had to do with demonstrating Soviet ICBM capabilities.

In my mind there are four purposes to this shot:

(1) Demonstrate our point ABM system. That's going to crater the market for ballistic missiles.

(2) Destroy the satellite's optics and other special equipment so it won't fall into the wrong hands

(3) Destroy the fuel, last thing we need is the bad press from us dropping toxic waste on some poor farmer's land

(4) somewhat related; make sure we don't drop some large piece on a cow and receive the aforementioned bad press

'The Ministry accused the U.S. military of failing to provide "enough arguments" to back its plan to smash the satellite next week with a missile so other countries could assess possible dangers.'

We don't have to provide any arguments to any russian ministry. Eat crap.

Quit complaining or we'll test our anti-candy-colored-rooftops missle next.

But seriously, if this "anti-US" sentiment is so strong around the world right now, should we waste time walking on eggshells or just not give a damn and live up to this reputation for a few years...doing what we want when we want. Oh...crap...nevermind...I've come back to reality and realized what kind of panty-waste society we've got right now that wouldn't hear of this.

Who cares what the Rooskies think? They can't even build a decent car, of course they are upset that we have the capability to knock down one of their obsolet ICBM's. Those are their only trump cards and they see it fading away.

All this whining from the same country that put an armend battle station into orbit, and it failed:

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/is.html

Ironically, only few days after this conversation, on May 15, 1987, the first heavy-lift Energia rocket blasted off from Baikonur, carrying Skif DM (Polus) spacecraft, which was later described as a prototype of the "battle station" in space. Among other things, the Polus could reportedly carry anti-satellite weapons. Due to a software glitch, the 90-ton-class spacecraft has never made it into orbit.