comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
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“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
Scottish Independence Voting Intention:
NO: 48% (+3)
YES: 37% (-7)
Undecideds: 12% (+1)
Undecideds Excluded:
NO: 56% (+5)
YES: 44% (-5)
Via @LordAshcroft, On 26 Jan-3 Feb,
Changes w/ 7-19 April 2021.
comment by De Gea's Legs (U14210)
posted 1 minute ago
Scottish Independence Voting Intention:
NO: 48% (+3)
YES: 37% (-7)
Undecideds: 12% (+1)
Undecideds Excluded:
NO: 56% (+5)
YES: 44% (-5)
Via @LordAshcroft, On 26 Jan-3 Feb,
Changes w/ 7-19 April 2021.
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Interesting period selected there. Might it be the impact of how the media have spun the cross party supported GRR Bill at holyrood?
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
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Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
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Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
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Could easily be.
Whatever it is, it’s a dangerous tact to stick your head in a lions cage to see what happens.
Strange behaviour, if the Yanks were to put sanctions on China like the ones Russia are facing, yes it would effect US production, but it would hammer the Chinese economy.
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
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Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
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Testing the limits with some balloons? I doubt that.
Probably some distraction or something like that.
Or all these balloons were launched at the same time and we're just discovering them one by one. That's not exactly toying.
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
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Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
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Could easily be.
Whatever it is, it’s a dangerous tact to stick your head in a lions cage to see what happens.
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This looks a little bit too much like the argument Putin apologists have been making since the invasion of Ukraine for my liking.
comment by Thorgen son of Kloppin - Mjolnir... To me! (U1282)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
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Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
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Testing the limits with some balloons? I doubt that.
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Why do you doubt it?
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Thorgen son of Kloppin - Mjolnir... To me! (U1282)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
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Testing the limits with some balloons? I doubt that.
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Why do you doubt it?
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Yeah I don’t know what this balloon stuff is about but the age of balloon spying was over decades and decades ago.
If China wanted to fk with the world or the US they would just release a virus. Oh wait….
China cannot do anything to the US anymore, well not nothing as they still have a lot invested in funds but I wonder if they're going to end up like Japan at some point soonish.
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted about an hour ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Thorgen son of Kloppin - Mjolnir... To me! (U1282)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits with some balloons? I doubt that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Why do you doubt it?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah I don’t know what this balloon stuff is about but the age of balloon spying was over decades and decades ago.
If China wanted to fk with the world or the US they would just release a virus. Oh wait….
China cannot do anything to the US anymore, well not nothing as they still have a lot invested in funds but I wonder if they're going to end up like Japan at some point soonish.
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China is highly unlikely going to attack the US directly - it would certainly be a very one-sided fight to be honest. It would much more likely engage in more forms of cyberwarfare and trade wars.
The spy balloons are very much performative geopolitics conducted on both sides. China already has the capacity to spy on the US, without the need for using spy balloons.
And the US is certainly also spying on China as well.
comment by Black Hawk (U16342)
posted 1 hour, 58 minutes ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted about an hour ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Thorgen son of Kloppin - Mjolnir... To me! (U1282)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits with some balloons? I doubt that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Why do you doubt it?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah I don’t know what this balloon stuff is about but the age of balloon spying was over decades and decades ago.
If China wanted to fk with the world or the US they would just release a virus. Oh wait….
China cannot do anything to the US anymore, well not nothing as they still have a lot invested in funds but I wonder if they're going to end up like Japan at some point soonish.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
China is highly unlikely going to attack the US directly - it would certainly be a very one-sided fight to be honest. It would much more likely engage in more forms of cyberwarfare and trade wars.
The spy balloons are very much performative geopolitics conducted on both sides. China already has the capacity to spy on the US, without the need for using spy balloons.
And the US is certainly also spying on China as well.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Oh 100%. I think they can all listen to everything and has been the case for years now.
So what we think? The balloons are geopolitical banter? Gotta love it if that’s the case
If I had to guess I'd say it was to test response times and such things.
A PLA attempt to embarrass Xi and nothing to do with the US at all.
https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1625085287838945280?s=20&t=h-gg0noFsOUeI_WWpX_sPQ
The comments are great, what a Con Man and a hypocrite this t0sser is.
comment by PawlBawron (U1055)
posted less than a minute ago
https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1625085287838945280?s=20&t=h-gg0noFsOUeI_WWpX_sPQ
The comments are great, what a Con Man and a hypocrite this t0sser is.
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I’m not sure he’s anti-union but more playing the “get into power” long game.
He’s trying to distance himself from anything the Tory’s can use as ammunition because the right wing media will have a field day over it (see legal curry vs illegal party(s) as an example).
Will it upset union members/leaders? Yes
Do they understand why it’s happening? I’d like to think so
Will unions work with Labour to end the strikes? Yes
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Oh 100%. I think they can all listen to everything and has been the case for years now.
So what we think? The balloons are geopolitical banter? Gotta love it if that’s the case
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From what I have heard it isn't the first sply balloon to travel across American airspace. Its likely Biden has ordered this one to be shot down to display toughness.
And obviously because the Chinese leaders are nobs, they are acting aggressively.
I don't trust China and I don't trust the Americans either. The popular theory may be factual or it may not.
Bus drivers for Abellio accept an 18% pay rise and call off their strike action, company is "delighted" the offer has been accepted.
Hallelujah
18% is a lot, guessing there's been a pay freeze for a few years
Brianna Ghey's death has left massive hole, says family https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-64625162
Parents worst nightmare what happened to this wee lassie. 😢
BREAKING:
The US, France and Brazil have all today urged their citizens to leave Russia immediately.
Train derailment in Ohio has released 1000s of tons of Vinyl Chloride which subsequently caught fire
US authorities are covering up this major incident
https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1625157978440536066
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 2 days, 8 hours ago
Is America trying to cover up the East Palestine train crash?
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posted on 12/2/23
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
posted on 13/2/23
Scottish Independence Voting Intention:
NO: 48% (+3)
YES: 37% (-7)
Undecideds: 12% (+1)
Undecideds Excluded:
NO: 56% (+5)
YES: 44% (-5)
Via @LordAshcroft, On 26 Jan-3 Feb,
Changes w/ 7-19 April 2021.
posted on 13/2/23
comment by De Gea's Legs (U14210)
posted 1 minute ago
Scottish Independence Voting Intention:
NO: 48% (+3)
YES: 37% (-7)
Undecideds: 12% (+1)
Undecideds Excluded:
NO: 56% (+5)
YES: 44% (-5)
Via @LordAshcroft, On 26 Jan-3 Feb,
Changes w/ 7-19 April 2021.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Interesting period selected there. Might it be the impact of how the media have spun the cross party supported GRR Bill at holyrood?
posted on 13/2/23
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
posted on 13/2/23
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Could easily be.
Whatever it is, it’s a dangerous tact to stick your head in a lions cage to see what happens.
posted on 13/2/23
Strange behaviour, if the Yanks were to put sanctions on China like the ones Russia are facing, yes it would effect US production, but it would hammer the Chinese economy.
posted on 13/2/23
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits with some balloons? I doubt that.
posted on 13/2/23
Probably some distraction or something like that.
Or all these balloons were launched at the same time and we're just discovering them one by one. That's not exactly toying.
posted on 13/2/23
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 31 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Could easily be.
Whatever it is, it’s a dangerous tact to stick your head in a lions cage to see what happens.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This looks a little bit too much like the argument Putin apologists have been making since the invasion of Ukraine for my liking.
posted on 13/2/23
comment by Thorgen son of Kloppin - Mjolnir... To me! (U1282)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits with some balloons? I doubt that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Why do you doubt it?
posted on 13/2/23
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Thorgen son of Kloppin - Mjolnir... To me! (U1282)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits with some balloons? I doubt that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Why do you doubt it?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah I don’t know what this balloon stuff is about but the age of balloon spying was over decades and decades ago.
If China wanted to fk with the world or the US they would just release a virus. Oh wait….
China cannot do anything to the US anymore, well not nothing as they still have a lot invested in funds but I wonder if they're going to end up like Japan at some point soonish.
posted on 13/2/23
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted about an hour ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Thorgen son of Kloppin - Mjolnir... To me! (U1282)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits with some balloons? I doubt that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Why do you doubt it?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah I don’t know what this balloon stuff is about but the age of balloon spying was over decades and decades ago.
If China wanted to fk with the world or the US they would just release a virus. Oh wait….
China cannot do anything to the US anymore, well not nothing as they still have a lot invested in funds but I wonder if they're going to end up like Japan at some point soonish.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
China is highly unlikely going to attack the US directly - it would certainly be a very one-sided fight to be honest. It would much more likely engage in more forms of cyberwarfare and trade wars.
The spy balloons are very much performative geopolitics conducted on both sides. China already has the capacity to spy on the US, without the need for using spy balloons.
And the US is certainly also spying on China as well.
posted on 13/2/23
comment by Black Hawk (U16342)
posted 1 hour, 58 minutes ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted about an hour ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 34 minutes ago
comment by Thorgen son of Kloppin - Mjolnir... To me! (U1282)
posted 37 minutes ago
comment by bmcl1987 - the M stands for meltdown 🤓 (U14177)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
comment by Gingernuts (U2992)
posted 9 hours, 44 minutes ago
comment by Jonathan Moore (U11781)
posted 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The US has shot down another unidentified flying object, this time over Lake Huron near the Canadian border, in what is the fourth such incident this month.
China toying with the yanks
----------------------------------------------------------------------
“Toying with the yanks”?
Simply demonstrating to the entire world how much we should be concerned at their antics, because the US take ever so kindly to having spy balloons and the like drifting into their air space don’t they?
Needlessly provoking is a better description, and the US is as full of wannabe missile launchers as they are.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits, perhaps in advance of South China Sea related incursions would be my concern.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Testing the limits with some balloons? I doubt that.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Why do you doubt it?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah I don’t know what this balloon stuff is about but the age of balloon spying was over decades and decades ago.
If China wanted to fk with the world or the US they would just release a virus. Oh wait….
China cannot do anything to the US anymore, well not nothing as they still have a lot invested in funds but I wonder if they're going to end up like Japan at some point soonish.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
China is highly unlikely going to attack the US directly - it would certainly be a very one-sided fight to be honest. It would much more likely engage in more forms of cyberwarfare and trade wars.
The spy balloons are very much performative geopolitics conducted on both sides. China already has the capacity to spy on the US, without the need for using spy balloons.
And the US is certainly also spying on China as well.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Oh 100%. I think they can all listen to everything and has been the case for years now.
So what we think? The balloons are geopolitical banter? Gotta love it if that’s the case
posted on 13/2/23
If I had to guess I'd say it was to test response times and such things.
posted on 13/2/23
A PLA attempt to embarrass Xi and nothing to do with the US at all.
posted on 13/2/23
https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1625085287838945280?s=20&t=h-gg0noFsOUeI_WWpX_sPQ
The comments are great, what a Con Man and a hypocrite this t0sser is.
posted on 13/2/23
comment by PawlBawron (U1055)
posted less than a minute ago
https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1625085287838945280?s=20&t=h-gg0noFsOUeI_WWpX_sPQ
The comments are great, what a Con Man and a hypocrite this t0sser is.
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I’m not sure he’s anti-union but more playing the “get into power” long game.
He’s trying to distance himself from anything the Tory’s can use as ammunition because the right wing media will have a field day over it (see legal curry vs illegal party(s) as an example).
Will it upset union members/leaders? Yes
Do they understand why it’s happening? I’d like to think so
Will unions work with Labour to end the strikes? Yes
posted on 13/2/23
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Oh 100%. I think they can all listen to everything and has been the case for years now.
So what we think? The balloons are geopolitical banter? Gotta love it if that’s the case
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From what I have heard it isn't the first sply balloon to travel across American airspace. Its likely Biden has ordered this one to be shot down to display toughness.
And obviously because the Chinese leaders are nobs, they are acting aggressively.
posted on 13/2/23
I don't trust China and I don't trust the Americans either. The popular theory may be factual or it may not.
posted on 13/2/23
Bus drivers for Abellio accept an 18% pay rise and call off their strike action, company is "delighted" the offer has been accepted.
posted on 13/2/23
Hallelujah
18% is a lot, guessing there's been a pay freeze for a few years
posted on 13/2/23
Brianna Ghey's death has left massive hole, says family https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-64625162
Parents worst nightmare what happened to this wee lassie. 😢
posted on 13/2/23
BREAKING:
The US, France and Brazil have all today urged their citizens to leave Russia immediately.
posted on 14/2/23
Train derailment in Ohio has released 1000s of tons of Vinyl Chloride which subsequently caught fire
US authorities are covering up this major incident
https://twitter.com/GonzaloLira1968/status/1625157978440536066
posted on 14/2/23
comment by CrouchEndGooner (U13531)
posted 2 days, 8 hours ago
Is America trying to cover up the East Palestine train crash?
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yes
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