Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told CBS News today that the so-called Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. seven months ago wasn’t spying at all. - Lemmygrad
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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1886024 [https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1886024] > “The intelligence community, their assessment – and it’s a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon,” Milley said, confirming China’s assertion that the balloon was blown off course. > > U.S. handwringing over the balloon brought China ties to a new low, and exposed the warmongering lust of the neocon 🤡 show steering Washington’s foreign policy.
    • AssaultRifle15 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      1 year ago

      The alternative is admitting that they had a complete meltdown over a balloon. People can force themselves to believe basically anything if it can save them the embarrassment of admitting they were enthusiastically wrong.

  • 201dberg
    12·
    1 year ago

    Fucking Biden admitted they weren’t fucking spy balloons Jesus fuck. We had actual new articles where at least one of them was confirmed it was for a Ham radio club or some shit. lol.

    • ButtigiegMineralMap
      8·
      1 year ago

      “Perhaps they weren’t Spy Balloons, maybe they were merely rubber sacs that are used for surveillance purposes🧐”

  • DamarcusArt
    9·
    1 year ago

    Damn, looks like you got a full lib bingo off that guy, congrats!

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      25·
      1 year ago

      I think the key part is the facts the article presents. US military now admits that the balloon did not do any spying, and that they believe the balloon most likely blew of course due to winds. The rest is just spin.