: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
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:
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
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
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
