I saw it so much when the Chinese weather balloon wandered over the US
So many people I thought to be smarter than they proved themselves to be were going on about how the US had secret signals interception abilities and the only reason they didn't intercept the "spy balloon" earlier is because they were spying on the information going back to China using this secret high tech stuff
And then it turned out that they'd tracked it the entire time because it's just a weather baloon, and no one gave a shit until it turned in to a big stupid political thing.
This is my favorite cope.
What exactly is the deterrence value of a capability no one knows about?
I saw it so much when the Chinese weather balloon wandered over the US
So many people I thought to be smarter than they proved themselves to be were going on about how the US had secret signals interception abilities and the only reason they didn't intercept the "spy balloon" earlier is because they were spying on the information going back to China using this secret high tech stuff
Pure undiluted copium
And then it turned out that they'd tracked it the entire time because it's just a weather baloon, and no one gave a shit until it turned in to a big stupid political thing.
"The whole point of a doomsday machine is lost... if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world?"