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Russia's military technology playbook is to exaggerate and disinform claims about capabilities. I'm left wondering if this just DC Russophobia hype being parroted by mainstream media lacking credible intelligence that problematic military space weaponry will be deployed. Congrats CNN, you're doing the work of the Kremlin for them.

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It's not very far fetched to detonate a nuke in space. The Russians can already do this without developing a brand new weapons platform.

The idea has been around a long time. This was the plot of CoD MW2 If someone nuked above the US and knocked out our grid it would be the most cost effective attack you can possibly think of.

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