i need a /pol/ gigabrain to explain something to me. musk puts 90% of global payload in space. that makes him literally indispensable from a national security perspective. the dude could be a literal full blown nazi and you would still have to work with him, because he will put all of your orbital recon and weapons in space. he's basically in control of the next military frontier. you don't get to nitpick about his personality or politics because he is a crucial lynchpin of the apparatus. but the biden/harris admin didn't work with him. they were going after him with a ton of lawsuits, that they would have doubled down on if they won. what i don't understand is how the government got into a position where they would actively antagonise someone who is that significant to us military hegemony. what was their plan? my shortlist of answers are: 1) the biden/harris admin was captured by us enemies and had an explicit directive to disempower, undermine and bring down the usa 2) they were just spectacularly incompetent and couldn't think through the second order effects of going after musk 3) they sincerely thought they could take musk down, nationalise spacex, and maintain the same orbital military hegemony with themselves in complete control is it some mix of these? is it a fourth thing i haven't thought of? it's like if the usa tried to stop the construction of fighter bombers and aircraft carriers during the battleship era. it makes absolutely no sense and it makes my head spin.
United Kingdom