dead [he/him] to news • 4 months agoUS military tracking high-altitude balloon flying over Western US, says reportexternal-linkmessage-square30 fedilinkarrow-up180
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minus-squareUmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]hexbear13·4 months agoChina trying to bait the US into a "boy who cried wolf" situation where they keep sending weather balloons until the US stops shooting them down, that's when they send the ones armed with nuclear war heads link
minus-squareRyanGosling [none/use name]hexbear2·4 months agoChina playing the long con as always link
minus-squarezed_proclaimer [he/him]hexbear1·4 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb Fu-Gos armed with nukes is certainly a take. Will be awesome in 20 years when one blows up in a forest when some camper stumbles upon it. link
China trying to bait the US into a "boy who cried wolf" situation where they keep sending weather balloons until the US stops shooting them down, that's when they send the ones armed with nuclear war heads
China playing the long con as always
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
Fu-Gos armed with nukes is certainly a take. Will be awesome in 20 years when one blows up in a forest when some camper stumbles upon it.