You've been blinded by pro-corporate propaganda. That balloon was just a peaceful science tool created by peaceful communist scientists, meant to improve the plight of the worker, only to be destroyed by worker-murdering capitalists in order to snuff out a beacon of hope for the exploited.
Apparently there were 3 Chinese spy balloons in US airspace under Trump, and another one before this under Biden, and nobody seems to have cared until now, so not sure about that.
I mean, no need to respond to provocation if millions of people aren't panicking
Sure, it's just when evaluating its success it should be remembered that there were four previous attempts that failed, assuming they were done for the same reason.
The Chinese government can get fucked 1000 ways to bloody Sunday. Fuckheads practice human rights violation on a daily basis, treat their people like shit, and as far as I am concerned are the weakest of the weak for being so damn insecure and shutting down any critcism. If you fuckers are so strong, then why so afraid of ole Pooh Bear? Why is that you bitches?
Exactly-- this isn't particularly rare or strange, making the US response borderline hysterical. They're playing to a domestic audience, that's all-- both the Republicans making hay about Biden being soft on China, and the Democrats wasting a missile shooting it down just to assure people who will never be assured that they're not.
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You know actually doing that would probably do wonders for human cooperation.Aaaaand now we've started a war with the martians.
U.S. shoots down unidentified object flying above Alaska
Officials would not speculate about what the object might be and said they do not know who owns it.
Anything capable of interstellar travel is more than capable of kicking our asses good and proper.
Eh, all the aliens have to do is claim they aren't here to eat of of mankind, just, you know, those people, and they'd be a protected species.
Oooh you'd think. But nope, the Conquista didn't do wonders for Amerindian cooperation. In fact, each warring tribe, used to maximize complex alliance networks against their opponents, tried to benefit from the arrival of Europeans and use them to gain the upper hand in their own conflicts. Those who tried to unite against the threat had just no chance in front of short-sighted opportunistic politics. Also, outside (or inside) enemies are never a true factor of unification, the fake/artificial ones are always used to crush or demonize inner dissent by simply intensifying local antagonisms, and the true ones are always seen as opportunities to gain power upon the peers. Heck, we're currently facing global extinction threats by global enemies : global warming, pandemics, etc. How's our common front going ?
If anything, aliens would just have to stand back and watch Maple Street burn...Our changing and worsening climate is existential but very difficult for those of us with limited knowledge of weather systems - my dumb ass for instance - to quantify or parse out in our heads.Oooh you'd think. But nope, the Conquista didn't do wonders for Amerindian cooperation. In fact, each warring tribe, used to maximize complex alliance networks against their opponents, tried to benefit from the arrival of Europeans and use them to gain the upper hand in their own conflicts. Those who tried to unite against the threat had just no chance in front of short-sighted opportunistic politics. Also, outside (or inside) enemies are never a true factor of unification, the fake/artificial ones are always used to crush or demonize inner dissent by simply intensifying local antagonisms, and the true ones are always seen as opportunities to gain power upon the peers. Heck, we're currently facing global extinction threats by global enemies : global warming, pandemics, etc. How's our common front going ?
So much for the green smurf strategy.
Depends.
Yeah, there's that.
Yes, it's just a bog-standard provocation.
