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> 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
by 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...