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pmc

Colonel
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Banning German cars just for being German would be stupid and repeating the mistakes the Soviet Union made. If someone wants a foreign made car, then you are reducing their quality of life. It may not be a big deal if it was just limited to cars, but the effect would be exacerbated if extended to other consumer products. Besides, there's also no need to. The trend looks like Chinese quality will meet and exceed western quality. If anything it'll be the west banning Chinese cars.

Why would buying South Korean or Japanese cars be any better than German ones? If you're attached to the American imperialist teat, you're just as bad as them. From the Chinese perspective, the Japanese are much worse than the Americans.
I cannot repeat the same point again. Germanic wealth, industrial base and ideological foundation is much bigger threat than Koreans/American/ Japanese. at some point you have to choose. if domestic variant is not available you take the next option. you refuse to admit Chinese have contributed to this German wealth.
Discretionary spending for who? Maybe for you, but I need a car to work, transport my family, etc.

LOL. European cars would have no chance against Japanese ones. Look at any market where both are allowed to compete equally. That's why the Europeans tariff Japanese cars to give their domestic manufacturers an advantage. Even still, Japanese cars are quite popular in Europe.
If there was no America. Europeans will have different relationship with Mideast. They already have Ottomans. Arent Europeans automobiles more popular than Asian in Turkey?. US policies have benefited greatly Asia. now its Europe turn to force US in different direction.
 

foxmulder

Junior Member
Had anyone identified nature of the payload with current images? I mean optical or SIGINT.

Neither... It is death ray.

Do you think it looks different than this??:


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siegecrossbow

General
Staff member
Super Moderator
How high was the balloon flying when it was shot down by that J-10C with PL-10 in 2019?

I think also 15KM. It was above J-10C's operational ceiling so they had to go with a missile shot. Back when J-6/7 were the PLAAF mainstay they dealt with balloons by boost climbing and shooting the target with cannon. Needless to say the window of opportunity is very narrow and the aircraft is at risk of stalling during this dangerous maneuver.
 

Temstar

Brigadier
Registered Member
Man they're really slagging Biden over this balloon:
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Military fans on weibo note that the tone in US social media right now is somewhat similar to the tone on weibo on 2nd of Aug 2022 when Pelosi's plane landed in Taiwan and PLA was perceived as unable to do anything about it. You might remember back then the rumor at the last minute about "Su-35 is crossing the straight right now!!"

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All the F-22 spotting leads to the new memes like:
"F-22正在穿过北美大陆!"
"中国气球窜访美国蒙大拿州"
 
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coolgod

Brigadier
Registered Member
Man they're really slagging Biden over this balloon:
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Military fans on weibo note that the tone in US social media right now is somewhat similar to the tone on weibo on 2nd of Aug 2022 when Pelosi's plane landed in Taiwan and PLA was perceived as unable to do anything about it. You might remember back then the rumor at the last minute about "Su-35 is crossing the straight right now!!"

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All the F-22 spotting leads to the new memes like:
"F-22正在穿过北美大陆!"
"中国气球窜访美国蒙大拿州"

Regular Americans are joining in on the fun and making conspiracy videos now ;)
Check out the comments below this official denial of explosions tweet.
 
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Temstar

Brigadier
Registered Member
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