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I’d hesitate to call this psychological warfare, but it now seems like the American people are paranoid about spy balloons and having their airspace violated. A

I’d hesitate to call this psychological warfare, but it now seems like the American people are paranoid about spy balloons and having their airspace violated. America is the one who brazenly flies and spies over other countries, that doesn’t happen to us. So now our leaders are trigger happy about shooting down any potential new balloons in order to try and save face while looking tough. Meanwhile, I’m sure plenty of Chinese officials are feeling pretty smug at the reaction they were able to cause and pride that they can present themselves as a capable challenger to American hegemony.

godelski 4y ago
We're trigger happy because the right used this to attack Biden in an effort to show that he is weak. This is also why many papers also mention that many balloons floated over during the previous administration. Though of course, why wouldn't China take advantage of that? Troll your enemies in any way you can.
signatoremo 4y ago
> it now seems like the American people are paranoid about spy balloons and having their airspace violated Only naive people would think so. 9/11 was 21 years ago. Where have you been? > America is the one who brazenly flies and spies over other countries, that doesn’t happen to us. Satellites have been used by all major powers since pretty much forever. As for other means, do you have insights of those brazen efforts by the US? > So now our leaders are trigger happy about shooting down any potential new balloons in order to try and save face while looking tough Lazy thinking. You don’t know if this latest incident was in response to the event last week or there was something specific that prompted them to shoot it down. They didn’t even say it was Chinese. Strange unknown flying objects are not new of course. They following article discussed something happened in 2019, and was disclosed a year ago: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/video-of-mysterious-drone-swarm-over-navys-most-advanced-destroyer-released https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/video-of-mysterious-dr...
- wsc981 4y ago
  > Satellites have been used by all major powers since pretty much forever. As for other means, do you have insights of those brazen efforts by the US? Syria comes to mind. Russia was invited by Syrian government [0]. US was not, but still invading country and airspace [1]. ——— [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_interventio... [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in...
klrpa 4y ago
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godelski 4y ago

We're trigger happy because the right used this to attack Biden in an effort to show that he is weak. This is also why many papers also mention that many balloons floated over during the previous administration. Though of course, why wouldn't China take advantage of that? Troll your enemies in any way you can.

signatoremo 4y ago

> it now seems like the American people are paranoid about spy balloons and having their airspace violated Only naive people would think so. 9/11 was 21 years ago. Where have you been? > America is the one who brazenly flies and spies over other countries, that doesn’t happen to us. Satellites have been used by all major powers since pretty much forever. As for other means, do you have insights of those brazen efforts by the US? > So now our leaders are trigger happy about shooting down any potential new balloons in order to try and save face while looking tough Lazy thinking. You don’t know if this latest incident was in response to the event last week or there was something specific that prompted them to shoot it down. They didn’t even say it was Chinese. Strange unknown flying objects are not new of course. They following article discussed something happened in 2019, and was disclosed a year ago: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/video-of-mysterious-drone-swarm-over-navys-most-advanced-destroyer-released https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/video-of-mysterious-dr...

wsc981 4y ago
> Satellites have been used by all major powers since pretty much forever. As for other means, do you have insights of those brazen efforts by the US? Syria comes to mind. Russia was invited by Syrian government [0]. US was not, but still invading country and airspace [1]. ——— [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_interventio... [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_the_Syrian_civil_war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in...

klrpa 4y ago

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