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What would be the purpose of surveillance balloons if not to use them on your rivals...

• moose_man 4y ago
  It is cost benefit trade off. Sure US could get some benefit but at the expense of the similar scenario that is playing out now here. Using balloons over national territory is highly escalatory. Whatever they're getting intelligence wise it can't be worth the fallout. Building a capability is not the same as employing it. We have nukes and yet we don't regularly bring them out.
• nyc_data_geek1 4y ago
  To surveil your population, as most "first world" governments seem so keen on?
• kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
  When the citizenry has the ability to remove you from power, they become your rivals
• hulitu 4y ago
  They use it on rivals. One of the rivals is their own people.