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US Foreign Policy 3.0: We're The Mets of International Diplomacy

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MichVandal said:
If it was really a concern, it would have been downed just as it entered US or Canadian airspace (aka, over the Pacific Ocean). From what I understand, it's been tracked from well before that happened. Add that to your correct conclusion about it not being shot down.
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...but by not shooting it down XIDEN is kowtowing to China!!1!1!! ;-)
 
bronconick said:
Steer it towards a nudist beach. Maybe the Chinese spies watching it will want to defect.
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Not if it's over the Midwest.

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Have you traveled? The south still holds crown for fattest fucks
 
Don Jr, who's totally gone hunting with rifles that weren't loaded and prepared by someone else in a location where the animals totally weren't trapped in there so rich guys could get their trophy photos, thinks people should shoot the balloon several miles up in the sky with their guns.
 
unofan said:
The resident derps on my Facebook feed honestly believe that. Sadly one is a former full time national guard member. Guess I know why he never moved up the ranks beyond a mid level NCO.
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When a derp wakes up in the morning, if it's sunny that proves Biden is the devil and if it's raining that proves Biden is the devil. For all x, x --> T.
 
Shooting it down just causes more problems. If we shoot it down we 1) have to clear the potential crash site to prevent harm to residents and 2) figure out what we can do with a giant pile of scrap.

In flight and active, the baloon is more useful to US intelligence sources. What radio frequency/ies it uses to talk back home (if it does), content of the data transmitted, how the gondola is assembled, what's visible in the gondola, etc. We shoot it down and it crashes, we have a giant pile of almost-space junk and no discernable way of telling what it did.

Also, it opens up a whole new ethics question when we go spying in other non-hostile nations with drones, planes, and yes, even balloons (I can't find the link now, but the Pentagon budge last year asked for an increase in their balloon surveillance budget), are those nation's free to shoot our shit out of the sky for funsies? I'm pretty sure the spy community are like Pirates in that they have their own code of ethics they'll follow. And it knowingly goes back decades to where even hostile nations knew the other was spying and kinda-sorta allowed it (to a certain degree).


What is absolutely p*ssing me off about this story are the Meal Team Six / Gravy Seal cosplayers who think they can take their Smith and Wesson M&P15, point it skyward, and think they can shoot down this baloon.

This blimp is floating at 11 miles in the air. An AR15 weapon's effective range is 500 *yards* or 0.28 miles. The baloon is almost 40 times the distance an AR could shoot.
 
Sounds like it has about 20 minutes left.

Is this the first time we have taken military action against the Chinese since we blew up their embassy in Baghdad in the 90’s?
 
Wait til our village idiot finds out multiple Chinese spy balloons were allowed to fly over during dumps reign and dump didn’t shoot them down or do shit about them
 
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