:jokerfied: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/leading-explanation-3-downed-objects-commercial-benign-balloons/story?id=97189258
Unironically shooting their own weather balloons and trying to cause an international incident over their little xenophobic shitfit.
The defense secretary said the first missile strike to down the object over Lake Huron on Sunday missed.
"First shot missed, second shot hit," Austin said
Fucking lmao they can't even hit a balloon. Whoops there goes grandma's house! Oh well at least we got that balloon with missile number 2.
Huh. Maybe it was a spy balloon then. The americans don't usually miss civilian targets.
Hey, be fair. The US military only has practice bombing civilians.
Holy shit that is very telling. They can't even hit a balloon first try?
Now come on, they have a lot of practice hitting weddings and schools too.
Doubt it, I hear they're programmed to just seek the nearest unarmed civilian if they can't see a target.
Missiles tend to have a self destruct if they miss. Ukkkraine has had that fail with s300 anti air missiles hitting cities, but I'd assume it worked here. Not everything the amerikkkan war machine makes is worthless boondoggle
I'd assume they wouldn't miss a balloon that barely moves too but here we are.
The 3 kills from the Black Book of the F22 will now be transferred to the Black Book of Communism
I told a friend the Lake Huron shoot down in particular sounded like it was a regular ass balloon and they said no way, I am a conspiracist.
I sent this article to them and I’ve been left on read.
Hahaha.
Ok I sent them this article
https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf
And they replied “hahaha”
Now they’re in on the joke I guess?
to the average amerikan, the truth sounds crazier than any conspiracy theory bc it conflicts with the propaganda theyve internalized
Love watching libs who supported Biden tell themselves that the country is less of an embarrassment now.
They've toned down the Chinese COMMUNIST party rehetoric and using PRC. They even got Lindsay Graham to tone the fuck down.
https://www.woodtv.com/hill-politics/us-warns-it-will-defend-philippines-after-china-laser-report/
HOWEVER military jugheads are still trying to hype up CHINESE AGGRESSION against RULES BASED INTERNATIONAL LAW apparently over some dumb intentionaly grounded boat on a reef and BLINDING GREEN LASERS (remember that green space laser story?). Well just regular laser pointers in the excuse for massive increased US military agression and buildup citing some 1951 pact - aka upping the military budget. It's like we already have military bases in the Philippines.
This botched intel artistry that they attempted to (and kept congress and the Senate apparently in the dark about) bullshit the public to manufacture consent, got caught and flaired up an international crisis with a MAD nation. Whoever is pulling these hijinks is a danger to us all.
I hope Austin and Blinken get shitcanned.
Hilarious, a reporter I generally respect repeated a “USAF source” who said there were actually 4 shot down and that they were “Chinese spy technology.” https://twitter.com/sethharpesq/status/1624657738553761794?s=46&t=bII3ieKmDmw155E324UIkA
Shame his source is a fucking sinophobic dolt
