The Chinese Spy Balloon Saga

Cuddles said:
lolwut?

U.S. intelligence agencies tracked the Chinese spy balloon from its launch in China and watched as it may have been inadvertently blown into U.S. airspace, a U.S. official has confirmed to ABC News.

"In some ways it doesn't matter, and I'm not going to opine on what the PRC (People's Republic of China) may or may not have intended, but in key ways it doesn't matter. It's completely immaterial. It's immaterial because this was a high-altitude surveillance balloon that did violate our airspace. It did violate international law," he said.

U.S. officials have said the intent of the balloon was for surveillance -- not meteorological research as Beijing claimed. A State Department official said last week that the balloon had equipment "clearly for intelligence surveillance," including antennas "likely capable of collecting and geo-locating communications."



again, source?
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The Cult has a narrative, you're a charter member of the Cult, so it comes as no surprise to me that you push the Cult narrative regardless of the evidence. Here's the thing. You support a party that believes that grown men performing sex acts in front of 5 year old kids is okay. You support a party that believes there is no such thing as human biology, that a man can become a woman simply by claiming to be a woman. When you're that far down the rabbit hole there's really no coming back from that, which is why you now will believe anything the Authoritarian Ministry of Truth tells you to believe. You and the other Cultists nonsense used to be amusing to some degree, now it just bores me which is why I don't spend much time in this forum anymore. Your Cult has clearly gone insane in the most clinical sense of the word.
 
mervyn said:
I don’t bet on this, at least not our form of electoral democracy.

By the way, we will stop it to become a democracy. The dark realists will try to win, we would retain supremacy as long as we can, by any means necessary, like bomb the gas pipeline.
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I'm not sure what you're saying here? That the US would rather deal w/a commie regime than an open market lib one? We only coup socialist slanting democracies, not lib ones. I'm guessing you're injecting the unfounded conspiracy that we blew up the Russian pipeline to make a point here.
 
CaptainObvious said:
The Cult has a narrative, you're a charter member of the Cult, so it comes as no surprise to me that you push the Cult narrative regardless of the evidence. Here's the thing. You support a party that believes that grown men performing sex acts in front of 5 year old kids is okay. You support a party that believes there is no such thing as human biology, that a man can become a woman simply by claiming to be a woman. When you're that far down the rabbit hole there's really no coming back from that, which is why you now will believe anything the Authoritarian Ministry of Truth tells you to believe. You and the other Cultists nonsense used to be amusing to some degree, now it just bores me which is why I don't spend much time in this forum anymore. Your Cult has clearly gone insane in the most clinical sense of the word.
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wtf you ranting about? It's your source so the "piss poor narrative" is on you. Let me guess, you didn't even bother to read the article you cited and are pissed I pulled text verbatim from it?
 
Feeling safer already.
The mysterious flying object shot down by NORAD fighter jets in Canada on Feb. 11 likely belonged to a balloon hobby club in Illinois
 
Cuddles said:
I'm not sure what you're saying here? That the US would rather deal w/a commie regime than an open market lib one? We only coup socialist slanting democracies, not lib ones. I'm guessing you're injecting the unfounded conspiracy that we blew up the Russian pipeline to make a point here.
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we need an enemy, real or imaginary, even aliens if we can find one.

if and when we lost supremacy, the situation will turn ugly fast.
 
CaptainObvious said:
Feeling safer already.
The mysterious flying object shot down by NORAD fighter jets in Canada on Feb. 11 likely belonged to a balloon hobby club in Illinois
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Well good! Who knows what these balloon hobby club miscreants would do next to terrorize us. :D

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The Guardian
Object downed by US missile may have been amateur hobbyists’ $12 balloon

Richard Luscombe
Sat, 18 February 2023 at 1:15 am SGT


A group of amateur balloon enthusiasts in Illinois might have solved the mystery of one of the unknown flying objects shot down by the US military last week, a saga that had captivated the nation.

The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade says one of its hobby craft went “missing in action” over Alaska on 11 February, the same day a US F-22 jet downed an unidentified airborne entity not far away above Canada’s Yukon territory.

In a blogpost, the group did not link the two events. But the trajectory of the pico balloon before its last recorded electronic check-in at 12.48am that day suggests a connection – as well as a fiery demise at the hands of a sidewinder missile on the 124th day of its journey, three days before it was set to complete its seventh circumnavigation.

Related: Biden says latest objects shot down over US not linked to China spy program

If that is what happened, it would mean the US military expended a missile costing $439,000 to fell an innocuous hobby balloon worth about $12.

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Who knows, Russia will buy millions of $12 balloons and use them to overwhelm
Ukraine air defense system.


So Ukraine better buys billions of $12 balloons.
 
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