Are you forgetting that you need to launch from one of those "suffocating regulatory states"?

Some of those states could project power in orbit if they wanted to. I'm not normally a hawk but I'll make an exception in this case.

If it's something that could even realistically be done, which again I don't actually concede based on what I said before, then maybe it would have slightly less regulation.

Or, and hear me out, Elon is just a drug addict who makes shit up based on his 12-year-old-boy fantasies because it sounds neat and investors just eat it up.