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The Chinese spy balloon was in fact, not spying.
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I don't care what it was. Keep your cheap balloons out of my air space.
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Can Americans keep their drones out of other sovereign nations' airspace? Seems pretty easy to just stop flying them unlike a weather balloon getting blown off course.
No.
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Nice selfie.
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Ah, the “I know what you are but what am I?” defense. Used by emeritus professors the world over.
The Chinese also scan America's land with lasers from space satellites btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idKZTWrtgl0
Chinese space spy satellites detectable from the ground? Sounds cheap to me.
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that's fine, just don't let that feed into a belief that china wants to destroy the world
Oh, they might want to. They might not. They just don't have the military to do so.
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do you assume the us military does
I don't think the balloon was cheap, as balloons go, making the military response all the more wasteful.
You're right. The balloon was probably the most expensive part. The stuff attached to the balloon was made of pure Chineseium.
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Didn't quite catch that
"Sure I got scared by obvious propaganda, but actually I did it on purpose and it's patriotic."
Scared by Chinese junk? Nah, blowing it up with a missle was just cool.
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Burning $400k on blowing up a weather bslloon is an extremely not-scared thing to celebrate.