RE. THE CLAIM THAT THE US HAS TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN CONTROL SPACE/TIME

The readers of this site are aware that to a great extent, what I blog about largely dictated by the readership of this site, in a peculiar way. During the week, I sort through emails that I get on a daily basis, saving some and jettisoning others. At the end of the week, usually on a Sunday afternoon, I make a large mug of hot, or iced, tea (very strong and very sweet), and then sort through that week's saved emails and their articles, trying to decide which stories seem to be most blog-worthy, and noticing any "trends" or "related stories" that seem somehow connected.  Occasionally, as with this story, so many people send me various versions of the story that it is clear that it has caught their attention, and that they want me to talk about it.

That is clearly the case here, because so many of you sent so many different versions of this story that it vaulted immediately to the top of the list, even before I sat down with my Sunday tea for the Sunday sort.

The story concerns Mr. Trump's oft-mentioned remark that the U.S.A has some incredible and scarcely believable secret weaponry, and as the cherry on that sundae, the claim of a "spokesman" that the U.S.A. has technology that can manipulate space and time. Here are two versions of those stories shared by E.E., with our thanks to him and to all of you who shared similar articles about this story.

US has secret weapons – Trump

Remarks by Director Kratsios at the Endless Frontiers Retreat

As the first RT article points out, Mr. Trump has made such statements about U.S. secret weaponry before, and usually in a context that could reasonably be considered to be "saber rattling":

Asked whether he was concerned about Beijing’s next moves – and a potential “escalation beyond the trade war” – Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping is “one of the very smart people of the world” who would never “allow that to happen.”

“We’re very powerful. This country is very powerful. It’s far more powerful than people understand. We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is, and it is the most powerful weapons in the world that we have. More powerful than anybody even, not even close,” he told journalists in the Oval Office.

“So nobody’s going to do that,” Trump added, reiterating that Xi is a “very smart man” who “knows exactly what has to be done.”

The US president, who has previously teased secret weapons using unusual scientific terminology, did not elaborate on the kind of weapons he was referring to this time.

In 2020, Trump touted what he called a “super duper missile” that could fly “17 times faster” than anything America’s adversaries had in their arsenals. He also claimed that Russia’s hypersonic technological breakthroughs resulted from stealing US missile plans during the presidency of Barack Obama – despite the fact that the US has yet to field an operational hypersonic weapon.

So there's the claim, at least, as far as RT understands it; the U.S.A. has "hyper-sonic missile technology" even though it has yet to deploy any operationally, and (2) it has other weaponry of an unspecified nature, leaving the the interpretation open to a variety of possibilities like weaponized weather, directed energy, rods of god/space-based or air-launched kinetic weapons, and in the wake of recent government-sponsored and staged "disclosures", even UFO-like technology and "anti-gravity" cannot be excluded from the list of possibilities.  We'll get back to those exotic things in a moment.

It's not the first time a world leader has rattled the "secret weapons" saber. During World War Two, Hitler made several public remarks about terrible weapons, which, from the context, now sound like allusions to nuclear weaponry, though some remarks could be understood to mean other even more terrible things. Fortunately for the world, those developments came too late to save the Third Reich.  But Hitler did not make the remarks in any attempt to drive the Allies to the negotiating table. Mr. Trump's remarks, on the other hand, appear to be deliberately targeted messages to foreign powers, and mentioning Mr. Xi by name gives the game away.  And the RT article is clear that the other intended target of the remarks is Russia, because the article goes on to observe that only Russia and China have operationally deployed hypersonic missiles.  All this is a bit of a misnomer for public consumption, because in point of fact, hypersonic missiles have been around since the World War Two German V-2 rocket. Every intermediate range and intercontinental missile in the arsenals of the USA, Russia, China, France, and Britain eventually travels at "hyper-sonic" velocities. What is new in the recent technology is that these missiles do not follow, nor have to follow, ballistic paths, and they are capable of being retargeted in mid-flight and redirected to different targets. It is this lack of ballistic trajectories and retargetability that makes them almost impervious to missile defense systems and the great threat that they are.

And most notably, neither Russia nor China are saying much of anything about what secret cards they might have up their sleeves, which brings us back to a bit of a history lesson. Just do a search on this website for 'Chelyabinsk meteor" and you'll pull up over two pages worth of blogs I've done over the years about space warfare, meteor and asteroid defense, and the famous incident of the "Chelyabinsk meteor" in Russia, and Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev's appearances on Russian TV both before that incident, and after it. In both instances Mr. Medvedev talked about the need for asteroid defense, for international cooperation to build such a system, and then went on to state that Russia would have to do so on its own if there was no international cooperation. When subsequently asked how Russia might defend itself against asteroids, Mr. Medvedev stated - clearly and unequivocally - that Russia could use its thermonuclear missiles, and that it had "other" means of doing so.  Cue asteroid, for a month later, as if scripted and right on cue, the Chelyabinsk meteor appeared, and blew up before striking the Earth.  No explanations of what was meant by "other" means of defense was forthcoming from Mr. Medvedev until after the event, when he clearly alluded to more exotic technologies than mere thermonuclear missiles.

The point is, Russia and America - and others - have been rattling the "exotic and unspecified weapons" sabers for a long time.

Which brings us to the second article linked above concerning the remarks of Mr. Kratsios.  If one reads the entirety of his speech, it is more or less standard boilerplate about American technological accomplishment in the last century, and regulatory stagnation since then, citing the usual facts in support of that stagnation, leading off with the fact that after the last Apollo mission, humans have not set foot on the Moon since.  The lines which are the focus of so much internet attention occur in this context of boilerplate:

Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space. They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.

And from that point to the end of the speech, it is more standard boilerplate.

The remark does, indeed, stand out. Technologies capable of manipulating space/time can indeed leave "distance annihilated" and "cause things to grow".  But hyper-sonic missiles, and high-speed rail, and "flying cars" can do that too, and indeed, these are the technologies specifically mentioned by Mr. Kratsios in his speech, not, as many excitedly proclaimed on the internet, "teleportation".  But that still leaves that disturbing beginning of the remark: "Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space."  This, indeed, is a clue that something else may have been in Mr. Kratsios' mind than simply "high speed rail" or "flying cars".  Experiments have already been done with quantum entanglement that baffle the mind, experiments that appear to "manipulate" space and time. Scientists have already created minute "bubbles" in time, and have performed experiments that actually "remove" events from a timeline on a very small quantum scale. "Time crystals" are being openly talked about in some scientific articles and papers.

All of those things are, of course, a long way from "teleportation" or any of the other fanciful interpretations of Mr. Kratsios' remarks that have been advanced as interpretations of them.

But - let it be noted - they are necessary steps in the technology trees leading to such capabilities, and it is not, therefore, surprising that they are being pursued. The real question is, how far have they actually gone, and what are the secret capabilities? If Mr. Trump's and Mr. Medvedev's remarks are any indicator, they may be much further along than the public literature would imply.

While we're at it, let's take one final, colossal, leap into the canyon of high octane speculation: does anyone remember that "predictive" novel about Baron Trump written almost a century before Trump became president? there's been a lot of speculation out that about that novel, and some are even claiming a kind of time travel, and now we have this strange remark by Mr. Kratsios. It does may one wonder...

See you on the flip side...

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