The map has already been criticized on Twitter as being fictional.How dare the Chinese send a balloon?
USA bases:
Actually, there is no USA base in Hong Kong. Maybe the whole map is suspect.
The balloon is too small and too high to shoot down. OTOH it's not really doing any harm up there either.A U.S. F 15 has climbed to 100k feet before, maybe send one up for a look see. Maybe Xi is hanging below it in a lawn chair with a bag of covid bats. If the balloon is gathering intel, upload gay porn to it or a tape of Trump saying " Chyna" on a loop. Watching some US news and they are fucking pissed, what a shitshow.
If it`s the size of 3 buses and visible from the earth, that`s substantial. As for the no harm, how long is the free world going to put up with China`s shit? They should be cut off from everything until there is a complete regime change, I know..way easier said than done.The balloon is too small and too high to shoot down. OTOH it's not really doing any harm up there either.
They're too big to regime change. The US would stumble even trying to overthrow a medium size power like Iran. China is massive, has nukes and has a network of trading relationships with the West.If it`s the size of 3 buses and visible from the earth, that`s substantial. As for the no harm, how long is the free world going to put up with China`s shit? They should be cut off from everything until there is a complete regime change, I know..way easier said than done.
You`re inside that balloon, posting right now aren`t you? lol.They're too big to regime change. The US would stumble even trying to overthrow a medium size power like Iran. China is massive, has nukes and has a network of trading relationships with the West.
A cheeky balloon isn't going to alter any of that. And thanks for the catch about the size of the fucker! I had the impression it was quite small.
Hey, in the second world war, Japan floated coated silk balloon bombs that were incendiary to the US west coast.
A few came down in the woods in the Pacific NW. Demonstration of the military might of Imperial Japan.
Imagine what the advance in plastics can do for balloon bag capabilities.
Stealth capabilities not being among them. MSM said it was spotted, but actual pictures reveal it's mostly white.
I would imagine the bigger issue not being talked about is ELINT to figure what the data download path is and what it contains.
Send a boarding party led by Geraldo Rivera. Instant TV docudrama...
I'm afraid my superiors won't let me answer that.You`re inside that balloon, posting right now aren`t you? lol.
Perfect.I'm afraid my superiors won't let me answer that.
All I can tell you is that - if I succeed - I will own the biggest, friggin' panda petting zoo in the Western Hemisphere and every kid in North America is going to make their parents pay the $30.00 admission fee to let the little fucker pet my pandas.
Easn't it a Chinese weather balloon that crashed in area 51 ?There has to be a way to take it down slowly, so it doesn't do harm. The other way is to shoot it down over water...
And the intelligence assessment was that the balloon could not get anything their satellites could not.They decided against shooting it down because they didn't want to injure people on the ground.