Another one
The Pentagon could report that a human gave birth to a dolphin and the NYT would uncritically repeat it verbatim
That's just someone at Langley forgetting to log out of their Pixiv account.
Supposedly the site doesn't play nice with mobile devices. How embarrassing.
:posad: wait wait wait don't shoot I'm not a drone!
:biden-alert: a-ha! another chinese spy balloon shot down, take that xi
Either America is lying to keep tension on the homeland up, or Chinese intelligence is gauging out how large of an object the US can detect. If this was an actual big deal they wouldn't be putting out pressers
Idk how well known this is but the US and Russia constantly send aircraft to the edge of each other's air defense bubbles. One side sends bombers, the other side scrambles interceptors, they do their little dance, then everyone goes home. I don't think it's daily but it's at least monthly, and it's been happening since the Cold War. China and the US do it all the time in the South China Sea, with aircraft patrols harassing each other or ships tailing each other. Even allied nations do it. Probing other nation's air defenses is a very normal part of day to day international military operations.
Also, as far as I know, there are always a bunch of gigantic weather balloons puttering around in the jet stream. Research balloons break from their moorings all the time and can travel enormous distances in prevailing winds. It's not unusual at all and it's only in the news this month because the media wants people focusing on China Bad instead of US police executing disabled people, the WWI chemical weapons train, the price of food, and a dozen other domestic crises.
also Nordstream pipeline attack - the other violation of nations sovereignty story
For every balloon they shoot down, 5 more will be sent. :sicko-balloon:
That would be really funny. China just starts sending balloons with nice cards from local schools or something by the hundred, just to annoy DC.
fuck they're winning this fight
we have no choice but to abandon communism.
Was it one of their own? A normal training mission?
An object they can't positively say was a balloon up front just that it was at 20,000 feet and the size of a car. Sure it wasn't a training drone and we're sensationalizing it to milk this China balloon thing further?
No, those can't hit 20,000 feet because they try to cruise just below sea level.
Yeah, that was the joke. I guess like an F-35, it just didn't land.
Liberals constantly talk about how funding Ukraine’s military is a great return on investment because the west gets to “destroy” Russia with decade old surplus weapons, but no one talks about how sending balloons to America is a great ROI for china because you get to test out their military response time and break the psyche of Americans for like $300
Going back to shooting down the real weather balloons I see.
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Are they gonna try to pin this on China as part of a process for manufacturing consent for war?
The whole spy balloon narrative is driving me literally insane. Is this what baudrillard was seeing? Debord?.Chomsky?
