NATO’s first-ever formal, public space policy is an incendiary document that legitimizes the use of force in space, which could eventually lead to a brand-new arms race, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
Addressing journalists at a briefing, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova criticized ‘NATO’s overarching Space Policy’, which outlines the alliance’s new stance that an attack against a member country’s assets in space counts as an attack on the bloc.
“The document is one-sided and incendiary in nature and is in line with the destructive policies of NATO member states led by the United States,” Zakharova said, suggesting that the policy seeks to legitimize the use of force in space, which could eventually lead to an arms race.