{"id":26904,"date":"2026-09-15T17:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=26904"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:20:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:20:43","slug":"us-isnt-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/15\/us-isnt-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"US isn&#8217;t safe!!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said the &#8220;on orbit&#8221; weapon was necessary to safeguard US forces against hostile enemy action.<\/em><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Speaking at the Air, Space and Cyber Conference on Monday, Meink said the US was ready for &#8220;evolving threats&#8221;, but did not elaborate on the weapon&#8217;s capabilities or when it was put into orbit.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Senior military leaders have previously said they planned to boost military capabilities in space, citing Russian and Chinese programmers developing ways to attack and disrupt US satellites in a future conflict.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>China responded on Tuesday by warning against an &#8220;arms race&#8221; in space.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>&#8220;We urge the US side to stop expanding its military capabilities and preparing for war in outer space,&#8221; AFP quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">\u00a0egretnewseditor@gmail.com<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink said the &#8220;on orbit&#8221; weapon was necessary to safeguard US forces against hostile enemy action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47471,"featured_media":26905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26906,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26904\/revisions\/26906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}