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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.

www.cbsnews.com The bizarre secret behind China's spy balloon

Earlier this year America's military defenses were put on notice against a Chinese balloon believed to be on an espionage mission. Gen. Mark Milley talks about what we've learned from an examination of the balloon's wreckage.

The bizarre secret behind China's spy balloon

cross-posted from: 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.

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  • It's funny how you always jump to everyone being racist. Project much? You should be better than that.

    The fact that you even think this story is plausible further highlights your view that Chinese are some primitive barbarians using balloons for spying.

    The fact you consider the Chinese primitive barbarians is pretty telling on your racism. Personally, I'd think a high tech solution that you might believe is undetectable would be a fantastic way to gather information, since satellites tend to travel in known trajectories so you can cover up anything interesting when you know they'll be in the sky. You really need to check that racism there.

    The most hilarious part here is how you just keep doubling down on this acting all smug. Once again, there is zero evidence for your conspiracy theory, but you keep on digging there.

    Nope, not acting smug, just trying to help you understand that you misread the article.

    Your statement:

    "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. (cbsnews.com)"

    The two statements from that actual Chairmain of the JCS in the article:

    "The intelligence community, their assessment – and it's a high-confidence assessment – [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon,"

    and

    "I would say it was a spy balloon that we know with high degree of certainty got no intelligence, and didn't transmit any intelligence back to China."

    I get you have problems understanding that, since it doesn't fit your narrative. I'm just trying to help you.

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