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.
It’s amazing to be that anyone credulously believed that China was trying to secretly spy on the US using such a comically large balloon. It would be hilarious if it weren’t for the fact that the media frenzy surrounding it echos the claims that Iraq had WMDs. The US press didn’t question the military’s narrative then and it isn’t questioning it now.