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Nobody could have predicted this. I have my doubts even when they call it "spying equipment" or whatever considering Chinese claim it was a meteorological balloon, certainly no doubt they would try to paint those tools as such.
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Can Americans keep their drones out of other sovereign nations' airspace? Seems pretty easy to just stop flying them unlike a weather balloon getting blown off course.
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Ah, the “I know what you are but what am I?” defense. Used by emeritus professors the world over.
The Chinese also scan America's land with lasers from space satellites btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idKZTWrtgl0
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that's fine, just don't let that feed into a belief that china wants to destroy the world
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do you assume the us military does
I don't think the balloon was cheap, as balloons go, making the military response all the more wasteful.
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Didn't quite catch that
"Sure I got scared by obvious propaganda, but actually I did it on purpose and it's patriotic."
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Burning $400k on blowing up a weather bslloon is an extremely not-scared thing to celebrate.