Why did the US sent their top secret planes to observe the ballone if they claimed the ballone is spying on them? Wouldn't that gave the chinese a winfall of intelligence on f-22?View attachment 106492
KC-10, two F-22 and three damn RC-135 circling this balloon!
Let them start another war in the middle east, let them waste time, money and ammo than will otherwise be used against ChinaSpicy. Iran is certainly the weak link of the China-Russia-Iran anti-West axis
Minute 1:06 soon?Let them start another war in the middle east, let them waste time, money and ammo than will otherwise be used against China
Like @biscuit said in this thread, everytime the americans want to focus on China, there is always something coming up that distract them
how is $2b sold over a month can even move needle in Yuan value?. only a weak currency can move with insignificant sale.I don't see PBoC preventing Russian sales of Yuan thus we will likely see more USD and US Bond sales from PBoC to preserve the value of offshore Yuan.
There is a hybrid war being waged against Russia, in addition to an economic war. Therefore, under these circumstances, it is normal for us to keep these data secret," Dmitry Peskov said, according to the Financial Times
They really are.Taiwanese army training. Looks like a preparation for something else rather than fighting the PLA.
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No but I can say that the US has easily spent about >100x times the cost of the balloon in this, especially if you factor the whole US government wasting their time on thisCan anyone give a rough estimation of the direct costs surrounding the balloon interception effort?
$BIG_NUMBERCan anyone give a rough estimation of the direct costs surrounding the balloon interception effort?