The function of the ESA counter plan

Essentially, it is the negatives case. It does the same thing as the SBMD aff. Instead of the United States federal government putting up space lasers, the European Space Agency will send up the lasers. The counter plan is better than the affirmatives plan because you avoid collapsing the Russian economy. The Russian economy link card says NASA has to be poor, by having the ESA do the plan, NASA does not get any funding and therefore Russia stays healthy. So you can do the same thing as the affirmative but better. However, ESA cannot solve for the U.S. leadership/heg advantage. Therefore, you must read case neg from the file saying that Heg will not lead to war. Russia DA + ESA CP Russia DA outweighs case, ESA CP solves every advantage except the Heg advantage.

Answering the ESA counter plan

Perm: Do Both Perm is a debate tool designed to give the affirmative advantage over the negatives counter plan. Permutation is the long form of perm Perm: Do both says that the United States and ESA should both put up lasers at the same time This is pretty great as we get double solvency since there are lasers everywhere.

Weigh your heg advantage. Say that heg is super crucial. It is more important than anything else. Say you solve for the DA

Answering the perm as the negative

Perm: Do both bad. Read your theory block. Also, explain how even if you do both, the affirmative still causes the Russia DA to happen which is a reason to say no to the perm. It makes it bad.

The Russia DA is a net-benefit

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