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That would probably have the worst cost/impact ratio of any weapon ever. They might as well build catapults that launch bricks of gold at the enemy.

ISS has many components with different drag ratios and would break up unpredictably upon entering the atmosphere, making it impossible to aim reliably.

This is a big part of the difficulty in decommission planning for the ISS in general.

A more plausible scenario is Russia refusing to bring back American astronaught, Mark Vande Hei and leave him stranded on the ISS to find another way home - at least according to this article. [0]

[0] https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2022/03/russia-threate...

Then, not one Russian astronaut would be allowed in a NASA project in a spatial scale of time, probably.

I suspect we are already way past that point no matter what.

Not really. If that were to happen we'd be at the point of nukes anyway.

No, it would break up and just rain debris over a large area.

Also, why would they ever want to? They have far more precise and effective weapons.

It sounds like a good plot for a call of duty game though!