The bizarre secret behind China's spy balloon
www.cbsnews.com
Earlier this year America's military defenses were put on notice against a Chinese balloon believed to be on an espionage mission. Gen. Mark Milley talks about what we've learned from an examination of the balloon's wreckage.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1886024

“The intelligence community, their assessment – and it’s a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon,” Milley said, confirming China’s assertion that the balloon was blown off course.

U.S. handwringing over the balloon brought China ties to a new low, and exposed the warmongering lust of the neocon 🤡 show steering Washington’s foreign policy.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
    5•1 year ago

    It’s funny how you always jump to everyone being racist. Project much? You should be better than that.

    Not everyone, just actual racists saying racist things the way you are.

    The fact you consider the Chinese primitive barbarians is pretty telling on your racism.

    I’m not the one claiming that China isn’t able to make a working spy balloon or that it has to steal tech from the west. You’re the one saying these things.

    Personally, I’d think a high tech solution that you might believe is undetectable would be a fantastic way to gather information, since satellites tend to travel in known trajectories so you can cover up anything interesting when you know they’ll be in the sky. You really need to check that racism there.

    A weather balloon is not an undetectable solution for gathering information. It’s also pretty clear that the balloon is very easily detectable given that it was tracked all the way. Love how you’re just making up nonsense here as usual.

    Nope, not acting smug, just trying to help you understand that you misread the article.

    Nope, I’m just dealing with the actual facts that the article reports.

    I get you have problems understanding that, since it doesn’t fit your narrative. I’m just trying to help you.

    I have no problem understanding the fact that US military has not been able to produce any evidence to support the spy balloon conspiracy theory. You are though.

    It’s funny how you think you’re in position to help anyone when you can’t even able to separate factual information from the narrative. Sad really.

    • flying_monkies
      -7•1 year ago

      The amount of copium you transmit is incredible. I hope you one day get some help.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
        4•1 year ago

        The only one transmitting copium here is the one who’s making stuff up to avoid admitting the facts the article reports. Please stop projecting.

        • @BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.mlEnglish
          -4•1 year ago

          After the Navy raised the wreckage from the bottom of the Atlantic, technical experts discovered the balloon’s sensors had never been activated while over the Continental United States.

          On May 21, President Biden remarked, “This silly balloon that was carrying two freight cars’ worth of spying equipment was flying over the United States, and it got shot down, and everything changed in terms of talking to one another.”

          So, Martin asked, “Bottom line, it was a spy balloon, but it wasn’t spying?” Milley replied, “I would say it was a spy balloon that we know with high degree of certainty got no intelligence, and didn’t transmit any intelligence back to China.”

          If you’re so dead set on it being a conspiracy theory, why are you posting articles that debunk your own claim?

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
            1•1 year ago

            It’s amazing how you’re completely unable to separate facts from the fiction. The facts are that the balloon didn’t collect or transmit ant information. The fiction is the spin the US regime keeps trying to put on the story. Anybody who’s not severely mentally challenged can separate the two.

            • @BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.mlEnglish
              -3•1 year ago

              The article you linked says, multiple times, that it was a spy balloon. No one is arguing whether China did or did not use it to spy on America except you.

              Your only argument seems to be that a F1 race car while parked is no longer a race car because it’s not currently racing.

              • Pili
                -1•1 year ago

                Are you still counting the Iraqi WMDs when you go to bed?

              • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
                -3•1 year ago

                Once again, learn the concept of framing and to separate framing from the facts presented. It will help your reading comprehension immensely.