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[coolgod]

The Balloon wasn't sent to deny Blinken's trip, the weather balloon was sent up long ago.

Blinken's supposed Feb 5-6th trip to Beijing wasn't even announced by China on Feb 1st press briefing, i.e., it was rejected by China.

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Bloomberg: Do you have any details to share on the expected visit by US Secretary of State Blinken to China?

Mao Ning: I have nothing to share at the moment.

The US created this whole Balloon crisis just to save face and pretend the trip wasn't rejected by China. Since they knew their trip was cancelled, they even made up fake news on Feb 2nd to boast that Blinken was going to meet Xi.

I can't believe how many members here are falling for the fake "Chinese Spy Balloon" story. The US media would never publish incidents when real Chinese Spy Balloons fly over the continental US.

 

[Biscuits]

Biden wanted to send Blinken to China and the Chinese are too polite to just tell them ‘Fuck No’, so they sent a balloon to make Biden pull the trip as ‘punishment’ instead.

Balloons like that float very slowly and from the brief description given by China, it uses some sort of steering which is almost surely very slow.

They couldn't have sent it in a short amount of time. Its also implausible that China could predict that civilians would see it while flying in a plane.

Instead, it's likely a routine movement of an aerial platform to keep tabs on the Americans, which was discovered by accident.

CSIS think tanker losing it
"But It must be shot down. this is a point of national honour"

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1621342679689740291

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1621339642338414592

It sits so far up that its not entirely trivial to shoot it down. A thaad or sm6 should not have the correct target profile to hit something like that. Getting a gun so far up into the air could be difficult.

But balloon should be going nowhere. So US has some time to decide how to bring it down. These are almost certainly 1 time use disposable items.

It is a rude shock to USA. Otherwise they wouldn't react on a government level scale.

 

[daifo]

It seems most of the internet comments even on the fringe sites like breitbart is bashing the pentagon or biden lol

Where do these ballons eventually go? Are they normally floated out and crashed into the ocean?

 

[siegecrossbow]

CSIS think tanker losing it
"But It must be shot down. this is a point of national honour"

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1621342679689740291

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1621339642338414592

I never thought we’d see meltdown on the level of Pelosi visit… For Pete’s sake it is just a stupid balloon…

 

[Temstar]

It is a rude shock to USA. Otherwise they wouldn't react on a government level scale.

I figured it would be a weather balloon from the start and didn't think it will errm.... balloon to an incident of this size, but I think I agree it's actually a big shock to the yanks because regardless of what they are saying, it's demonstrating that their homeland isn't safe. Worse still they didn't have any indication this was possible and who knows what other tricks CPC got up its sleeve.

People on weibo have found photos of similar solar panel equipped large balloons:

It apparently has 3 tons of payload!

 

[ficker22]

I figured it would be a weather balloon from the start and didn't think it will errm.... balloon to an incident of this size, but I think I agree it's actually a big shock to the yanks because regardless of what they are saying, it's demonstrating that their homeland isn't safe. Worse still they didn't have any indication this was possible and who knows what other tricks CPC got up its sleeve.

People on weibo have found photos of similar solar panel equipped large balloons:
View attachment 106530
It apparently has 3 tons of payload!

This is worse than Sputnik and Cuba Crisis squared!!!!!!!

 

[tokenanalyst]

I figured it would be a weather balloon from the start and didn't think it will errm.... balloon to an incident of this size, but I think I agree it's actually a big shock to the yanks because regardless of what they are saying, it's demonstrating that their homeland isn't safe. Worse still they didn't have any indication this was possible and who knows what other tricks CPC got up its sleeve.

People on weibo have found photos of similar solar panel equipped large balloons:
View attachment 106530
It apparently has 3 tons of payload!

Damn people are having a field day over this. Melting down for a weather balloon.

 

[escobar]

I figured it would be a weather balloon from the start and didn't think it will errm.... balloon to an incident of this size, but I think I agree it's actually a big shock to the yanks because regardless of what they are saying, it's demonstrating that their homeland isn't safe. Worse still they didn't have any indication this was possible and who knows what other tricks CPC got up its sleeve.

People on weibo have found photos of similar solar panel equipped large balloons:
View attachment 106530
It apparently has 3 tons of payload!

this is said to be from JP Aerospace, a US company

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1621486548473749504

 

[BMUFL]

CSIS think tanker losing it
"But It must be shot down. this is a point of national honour"

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1621342679689740291

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1621339642338414592

Life is imitating art and I don't like it...

Neunundneunzig Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich für schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: "Krieg!" und wollten Macht
Mann, wer hätte das gedacht
Dass es einmal so weit kommt

Wegen neunundneunzig Luftballons
Wegen neunundneunzig Luftballons
Neunundneunzig Luftballons

DeepL:

Ninety-nine Ministers of War
Matches and petrol cans
Thought they were smart people
They smelled a fat prey
Shouting "War!" and wanting power
Man, who'd have thought
That it would come to this

Because of ninety-nine balloons
Ninety-nine balloons
Ninety-nine balloons

---

Ngl watching the USofA losing their collective sh*t over a balloon is kind of funny though.

 

[olalavn]

I figured it would be a weather balloon from the start and didn't think it will errm.... balloon to an incident of this size, but I think I agree it's actually a big shock to the yanks because regardless of what they are saying, it's demonstrating that their homeland isn't safe. Worse still they didn't have any indication this was possible and who knows what other tricks CPC got up its sleeve.

People on weibo have found photos of similar solar panel equipped large balloons:
View attachment 106530
It apparently has 3 tons of payload!

it's worse than 1962