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The US military was clearly totally clueless as to what to do because this technology has never been used before.
Of course no one has access to satellites, military or commercial.
They were spying on our nuclear sites! The ones the Russians have flown over hundreds of times under the open skies treaty.
Thankfully all our fiber optic cables are pure and untouched. Our server farms and computers are clean of any Chinese influence. No surveillance has taken place of all the SF86s with finger prints, photos, bank accounts, health records, addresses, family data, and social networks of every single American with a security clearance. Our operatives can cross any border undetected.
US defense contractors and their USG security partners have perfectly protected the billions of dollars worth of taxpayers cash spent on high tech military blueprints and IP. The fact Chinese nuclear warheads, military planes, ships, etc, look exactly like ours is a mere coincidence. The science leads every country to a W88 warhead, JSF, C17 or lookalike.
So forget all of that. Focus on the balloon.
In fact, please panic and point fingers screaming at domestic enemies. President Xi, whose economy is tanking and can't manage COVID and related social unrest etc, just hates it when Americans are divided. Xi and Putin call to console one another when Americans fight themselves.
So on behalf of Xi and Putin, to everyone who simply assumed the entire USG national security apparatus is filled with incompetent morons who can't handle a balloon moving at a few mph, thank you. Keep agitating for panic over trivia. Never forget, when you all obsessed about Bill Clinton's sex life bin Laden and his cavemen created and delivered 911. The morons in the USG warned about the threat but you were all too busy flipping out about a blue dress.
Thankfully Xi and Putin have not worked out how to side track the American public with trivia as they execute real plans unseen by us because we are too dumb, fat and happy arguing OVER A BALLOON.
Get a grip 🇺🇲
Hmmm…I think this just might be satire. Of course, you never know anymore since there are so many “alternative” facts out there (I’m sure that has nothing to do with Chinese or Russian analysis of rapidly declining average US intelligence.)