I have this inkling that drones and balloons are normal espionage background noise these days and the actual offence was screwing up, getting caught, and forcin

I have this inkling that drones and balloons are normal espionage background noise these days and the actual offence was screwing up, getting caught, and forcing a performance of the face saving dance. “Okay so you deny it. Then we’ll hum and haw. Then later we will shoot it down. And you can use that to save face with your people by condemning our barbaric violence or whatever you want to say.”