The line is drawn at damaging equipment. This is just jamming. Radio jamming isn’t an act of war. Doing it in the visible spectrum doesn’t magically make it one.

That’s a pretty arbitrary line. Would you rather russia blow up a car or disable all American satellites? Hyperbole for sure but the distinction is important. Jamming can easily be an act of war depending on scale.

That is the currently accepted definition in politics today. All lines are arbitrary there. But that is where it's been drawn.

One is ruining a photo, the other is destroying equipment.

They did say “destroy” but they also said “with similar equipment”. So presumably it’s just the same disabling effect on my read of it.

We don’t have orbital weapons