The bizarre secret behind China's spy balloon
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Earlier this year America's military defenses were put on notice against a Chinese balloon believed to be on an espionage mission. Gen. Mark Milley talks about what we've learned from an examination of the balloon's wreckage.

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.

  • edge [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    He tipped off the Billings Gazette, which got its own picture, and he told anybody who asked they could use his free of charge. “I didn’t want to make anything off [my picture],” Doak said. “I thought it was a national security issue, and all of America needed to know about it.”

    Imagine being such a bootlicker that you deny yourself getting that bag for basically no good reason. Plenty of news sites would have been happy to pay for it and all of America would still know about it.