:smedly-exhausted: They basically admit in the first minute the balloon fiasco posed no threat and was a psyop to manufacture AUKUS Warbuck$
"Secretary Austin will host a bilateral meeting today in the Pentagon with Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Richard Marles.
The secretary looks forward to billateral 'defense' cooperation and our mutral 'security efforts' within the indo-pacific region....blah blah
:obama-drone: :joker-amerikkklap: :amerikkka:
Oh wow it violated our air space? Can you imagine that, a country just willingly violating another sovereign nation's air space? The monsters
You really think someone would do that, just go into another sovereign nation's airspace and violate it?
When I spy on my geopolitical rivals I like to do so using slow moving, easily detectable pieces of technology that were invented during the 18th c.
The number of :reddit-logo: losers making the argument that that's calculated, either by China for seeing how we react, or by us for not reacting, is next-level. The Xiloon broke westoid brains without firing a single shot :xigma-male:
China has a new international partnership with ACME Technologies.
China simultaneously uses some of the most sophisticated spyware ever created (according to every American defense contractor ever) while also employing....balloons as spy devices
To be floated over their adversary
Language is important here.
At no point does he confirm it has anything to do with the Chinese government.
He says it is "Chinese controlled", that does not mean the government, it can also mean private/civilian.
He does not call it a spy balloon, he calls it a "surveillance balloon".
A weather balloon surveils the weather.
If they reject that it's a weather balloon, then what kind of surveillance are they claiming it is doing?
“Chinese controlled”
US military confirms that China has mastered weather control technology
I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING :china-stars:
Shit, that's the AliExpress delivery balloon that's carrying my knock-off brand guitar pedals!
https://www.aliexpress.com/i/2255799998816368.html?gatewayAdapt=4itemAdapt
This is a clone of the Electro Harmonix BassBalls pedal, which is how Mick Thomson gets that tripped-out auto-wah sound at the beginning of "Disasterpiece." This deviates from the EHX version by adding a fuzz mode, and is in a mini-pedal type enclosure.
Just watch it turn out to be a balloon that monitors a single chemical or something. "That's not weather!"
Do the boomers in charge realize how was this makes the USA look
Just like Ukraine trying to blame the missile that hit poland on russia.
Not even the initial blame, I can respect the grift of just immediately claiming it was Russia's fault (well, except for the fact they were essentially arguing for World War 3 to begin), but they kept at it for weeks and weeks after NATO said that it was a Ukrainian missile. Deranged behaviour
If we go to war over a balloon I am going to :matt-jokerfied:
The US has been edging towards china’s airspace and waters repeatedly with MILITARY VEHICLES and they just go “lol international waters bro.” But china flies a flimsy ass balloon over some mountains and they send 50 fighter jets around it and make every American into a bloodthirsty demon
Amerikkkans are so stupid
Imagine thinking a modern power with satellite capabilities would send a fucking balloon to spy
Especially over the route it’s taking, like yeah we’re deeply interested in what’s happening in Montana or whatever the fuck
Absolute morons
Chinese pigeons are being used by Xi to ferry messages to tik tok executives!!!
The US handling this about as well as you'd expect a child to handle this sort of thing. Except unlike a child who would threatent to punch and scream the US could potentially kill millions if they keep going down this route.
Its not hyperbolic to say it threatens billions. These psychopaths genuinely want a Great War With China, which could threaten organized human life as we know it today even if nuclear weapons were not used. An all out conventional war between the US and China ( starting in the South China sea or over Taiwan or even Korea) could disrupt globalized capitalism to a point of plunging large parts of the world into economic meltdown and political chaos bringing some regions into possible famine conditions particularly in Africa(which they already on the brink of).
THE BALLOON HEARD ROUND THE WORLD
Please don't let this start ww3
If this started ww3 i would fucking die from laughting :michael-laugh:
oh shit oh fuck, I never played it. Now what am I gonna do? :bear-despair:
Get into a position where your skeleton will tell a story to the person who inevitably comes across it
Oh, that's perfect. My post-apocalyptic life plan has always been "die as quickly and painlessly as possible," so that adds a nice twist that should hopefully give me a little chuckle on my way out.
When I get vapourised by a nuke I'm gonna die like that guy in Pompeii cranking one out one last time
What country is :flag-trans-pride: ? They all seem really good at fallout
Two amusing scenarios:
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Its a weather balloon. These theatrics are justifying more military spending. A fucking balloon. They won't even
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Its a spy balloon. Which means... we spend billions of dollars on the most sophisicated military and espionage technology ever designed and they just use a balloon.
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US defense officials said this has happened SEVERAL times in the past 5 years. Totally manufactured news
I'm pretty sure they have identifying numbers just like airplanes do. It was literally never a secret balloon.
Yes, they've claimed it's a civilian meteorology research balloon that's been blown wildly off course
The old man from Up says to uphold Xi Jinping thought.
I'm sure the Chinese are this desperate for "spy" shots of checks notes Billings Montana?
