So yall going to let China fly ballons over the United States with technology the size of a bus (Spying) Update:Shot down over SC)

[Silver Surfer]

It's wild that shyt is allowed to be up there like that.

This and allowing tik tok in the states is pathetic

 

[Mister Terrific]

- China owns $1.3 Trillion of US's debt

 

[east]

i don't buy that america didn't down the balloon cause of the risk to civilians on the ground. it's so small and montana's so sparsely populated that the crash prolly wouldn't be seen by any living thing larger than a bird. there has to be some sort of intelligence or political value to keeping it afloat that outweighs shooting it down.

oh, here's the chinese excuse:

Blinken postpones trip to China after discovery of suspected surveillance balloon

U.S. defense officials alleged the balloon is flying over sensitive areas to collect information.

www.axios.com

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

 

[NYChase718]

Its like a gender reveal balloon
If they shoot it it reveals the latest covid strain

 

[Leasy]

Its like a gender reveal balloon
If they shoot it it reveals the latest covid strain

 

[Unemployed GM]

Wow. The written responses so far from the US has revealed a lot. Basically we’re aware they’re not to be fuccked with. China will try something with Taiwan. It feels so inevitable that Australia trembles at the thought of being caught in the middle, given its location.

They ain't doing shyt with Taiwan unless they back is against the wall.

 

[RageKage]

They have a hi-def pic of this bus sized chinese spy balloon now overhead the lands

Spoiler

 

[mbewane]

All world powers probably always do this, but America wants to put the public on game to get support for whatever shyt we got cooked up in the near future

Fixed.

 

[Idaeo]

a defense analyst on twitter made a good point, the US could potentially reveal our high altitude defense capabilities by shooting this down.

 

[Arithmetic]

Considering most countries have spy satellites and spy on eachother this is about the most non news story I can think of.

False equivalence lol. Does the US have satellites in China's airspace?

 

[Elim Garak]

False equivalence lol. Does the US have satellites in China's airspace?

 

[Arithmetic]

Don't be obtuse.

Reconnaissance satellites in orbit ≠ spy satellites in airspace.

 

[Elim Garak]

Don't be obtuse.

Reconnaissance satellites in orbit ≠ spy satellites in airspace.

We have satellites that spy on China lol.

 

[3rdWorld]

Bush would have shot that bytch down