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.
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…
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.
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!
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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.