• sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    USA has like 1.6k derailments a year. EU has like 20

    This is the answer, just like every country has sent various types of stealth aircraft to monitor every other country, it's just that when you need a panic you just point out how your enemy is doing the same thing you're doing (or in the US's case, a tiny fraction of what you're doing)

    edit: read it wrong. 1.6k is obviously waaay more than 20, but the point is the same. US News was not covering this stuff before, now they are. So it'll look like there's some sudden catastrophic change, when really we're just rotting to death as usual. But since it looks catastrophic and sudden, and they've made the balloon stuff look that way too, this will be used to blame China or justify war or something like that.