Even after this was confirmed, it's grating how this particular article is still calling it a spy balloon in the headline. The doublethink is so blatant.
Did it transmit intelligence? No.
Did it carry spy equipment? No.
Did it carry any military equipment at all? No.
Was its flight path guided in any way? No.
Did the air force literally shoot down multiple American weather balloons in the following days of the incident, demonstrating the irrational nature of this manufactured crisis. Yes...
Was it a spy balloon? Yes!
Doesn't the linked video state it did have surveillance equipment? I don't disagree with you, but 'equipment wasn't on' is different from 'had no equipment'.
Of course, even if it did have surveillance equipment, it's not like we have any moral grounds to get on our high horse about spying on other countries.
I mean, by the US definition I'm fairly an altitude sensor is considered "surveillance equipment" just because it was manufactured in China.
I swear it only became a news story when it flew over an area with people and it was low enough to be spotted. I could swear that I had read that the government already knew about multiple other weather balloons but just didn’t care or at least didn’t say anything about them. And once people start screaming there’s a spy balloon in the sky you can’t really just leave it alone.
That's quite literally what happened. It first entered US airspace over Alaska, then idly drifted over all of Alaska, all of Western Canada, then down through several US states before an "anonymous DoD official" decided to tell the media it was a spy balloon, and then everyone lost their fucking minds.
Yes, well, the very fact that we even thought it was possible that it could be a spy balloon really says something about China
Is this a bit or did you unironically do the "well it says a lot about society that I fell for this misinformation" thing?
Milley replied, "I would say it was a spy balloon that we know with high degree of certainty got no intelligence, and didn't transmit any intelligence back to China."
