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.
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.
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.