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human
[James Bond: Moonraker] The US conducts a military operation in orbit complete with laser-armed space shuttles in 1979. How does this effect the Cold War going into the 80s?
gpt
The soviets spend even more money on orbital weapons than they already where to keep up. Putting more strain on a system already near the breaking point.

That stuff isn't cheap. The money is going to have to come from somewhere. With how hyper militarized the USSR was (they spent between 15 and 20% of their entire GDP on defense in the 80s, the US spent 5% of theirs) that cut was unlikely to come from their defense budget.

So expect even less money to get spent on basic services. People will be stuck in even more run down apartments than usual, but the party will have fancy new toys to show off every couple of months. All in preparation to fight a ww3 that is never going to happen.

On the bright side, this would help their overall technology sector and keep their engineers happy with something to work on. So it won't all be bad.