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[–] YourPrivatHater@ani.social 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Technically they could down satellites, but thats nither the entire internet nor is it a good idea for themselves. Doing that would make it increasingly harder to operate any satellite in orbit due to the prices left behind, they don't just fall down, its a gigantic shotgun cloud aiming for other satellites.

Also Russia is kinda using GPS themselves lol.

Furthermore there is the European Union or rather Esa made Galileo https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation) GNSS is a backup for GPS (and even more accurate lol).

They do technically have nukes as well. Doesn't mean using them is anywhere near reasonable or beneficial...

And i said its like "we have nukes" its a empty threat not literally we have nukes, you could use nukes to destroy the internet as a total. But that would cost everyone's life.