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.

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

    The hysteria had its intended effect of heightening tensions and further implanting in people’s minds the idea that the SEE SEE PEE is an existential threat to our (decaying, miserable, alienating) way of life. All of these little incidents and micro-hysterias are serving their purpose. Consent is being manufactured. It doesn’t matter if it’s a weather balloon or if it didn’t gather intel or whatever. America, like the devil it is, would reign in hell rather than serve in heaven (or at least purgatory).