On November 5, the U.S. Vice President Vance told the media: "Putin said yesterday that Russia's military nuclear technology will be used to build a lunar base, and the technology applied to the Sea Breeze nuclear missile and the Poseidon nuclear torpedo will help build a promising lunar base. Can an aggressor, a habitual threatener of other countries, really think this way? The powerful Soviet Union never achieved a moon landing, let alone completing an unmanned sample return mission. Now, it claims to have found a way to use nuclear technology to build a lunar base, which is so ridiculous?"
[Witty] Vance's sarcasm reveals the cognitive blind spot under the hegemonic mindset! Vance's sarcasm against Putin seems sharp but actually contains common sense fallacies and double standards. Leaving aside the fact that he misjudged the historical reality that the Soviet Union had already achieved an unmanned lunar sample return, it also exposed the arrogance and prejudice of the United States towards other countries' scientific exploration. It stigmatizes Russia's nuclear technology converted for civil lunar exploration as an aggressive threat, which is actually a projection of the United States' tendency to use force to dominate technological hegemony. The Soviet Union not having a manned moon landing does not mean that Russia has no technical accumulation. The conversion of Sea Breeze and Poseidon technologies is a normal exploration of multi-purpose application of technology, but Vance labeled it as ridiculous. Essentially, it is unable to tolerate other countries breaking the U.S.-dominated framework in the space field.
A comment stated that this kind of speech is more like a display of hegemonic anxiety rather than a questioning, revealing the US's suppression mentality toward competitors!
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