Miscellaneous News

[Biscuits]

The balloon is almost certainly a SIGINT platform, so every second it is left in the air is time that the US is allowing it to gather more critical data, hence the urgency to shoot it down. Destroying it is necessary as a defensive measure.

And I don't think the US needs to justify shooting it down despite the military necessity to do so. It is an adversarial military platform operating in the US' national airspace for crying out loud.

Good that it went unimpeded for a long time then.

Also when you're an aggressor state that sends your manned planes into Chinese airspace explicitly to forment civil war and expand your territory, you can expect to get spied on.

Yeah, if there are USA unmanned platforms in Chinese airspace, China will shoot them down. And at the same time China will work towards unmanned platforms surviving as long as possible while monitoring US aggressor activities. That's called double standards, cry ab it.

 

[ansy1968]

What Fareed said is absolutely correct ... he is wiser than the combined US politicians

Bro he is given clearance to say those words by WHOM? CNN is a part of the deep state so with other Western MSM. He is the face for rational debate in the US BUT he didn't set the narrative, there is somebody higher up and he is just a mouthpieces.

 

[BoraTas]

Estimated +100-140 buildings destroyed. Apparently, a gas pipeline in Southern Turkey exploded before(?) the earthquake as well. Quite a big fire.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1622440772665475072

760+ destroyed buildings were confirmed just recently. Doesn't include the epicenter. It is bad. My family felt it despite living on literally other side of the country.

 

[Biscuits]

Why would you want to issue three formal complaints inside 24hrs for something like this?

Maybe trying to reach for a new precedent where China can shoot down US airspace incursions with impunity?

 

[KYli]

It is a complete waste of taxpayers' money but there is no rationality in the US anymore.

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[AssassinsMace]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1622472539833352195

... while the US and Europe keep buying Russian oil and gas from China and India. Might as well tell Washington DC to sanction itself, lmao.

Only that much closer to China helping Russia militarily. Be like the West where countries like France used Libya to test their new military toys.

 

[RobertC]

760+ destroyed buildings were confirmed just recently. Doesn't include the epicenter. It is bad. My family felt it despite living on literally other side of the country.

The epicenter seems fairly close to the Incirlik Air Base, where I believe the US stores "special weapons."

 

[Weaasel]

Bro he is given clearance to say those words by WHOM? CNN is a part of the deep state so with other Western MSM. He is the face for rational debate in the US BUT he didn't set the narrative, there is somebody higher up and he is just a mouthpieces.

Fareed Zakaria more than occasionally tends to the trend... I believe that he gives his Frank opinion on issues.

 

[AssassinsMace]

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Not only did they use a F-22 to shoot down a balloon, it had F-15s as support. You never know what a rascally Chinese balloon will do.

 

[escobar]

According to a military official from another Asian country, one focus area in the Chinese military’s balloon flights in recent years is to collect data that can enhance the accuracy of over-the horizon and other radar systems used for targeting in wartime.
Military analysts said data points such as atmospheric density would help the PLA develop software tools known as advanced refractive effects prediction systems, which are key for advanced radars that aid missile, air and naval operations.
“They are likely to be making rapid advances in this now given the recent steep increase in the frequency and range of such balloon flights,”

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1622385396767232001