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  Maybe then we'll figure out who the Chinese are in bed with.
context: Force majeure: An event or effect that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled, e.g. ACT OF GOD >
  
  The Pentagon says the balloon, which was carrying sensors and surveillance equipment, was maneuverable and showed it could change course. It loitered over sensitive areas of Montana where nuclear warheads are siloed, leading the military to take actions to prevent it from collecting intelligence. >
  
  The issue is those silos have been known and can be seen via Google maps. This is just really bizarre >
  
  Probably scanning all the local radio transmissions along with seeing what's unsecured. >
  
  I believe their goal is to disrupt our communications in event of war. >
  
  Which is why we should be mindful of where our communications equipment is manufactured. >
  
  Absolutely. They have shown they can not be trusted. >
  
  Anyone can be trusted, until they can’t. It’s best to operate with the future in mind. Don’t trust what you don’t control. 
  Google in the past had an unofficial policy of “don’t be evil”, and while currently they have been shady, they have never been super data-sharing shady, but let’s say Chat GPT destroys them and a Chinese buyer comes along and snatches Alphabet up, suddenly all of Gmail is an espionage dream for an unscrupulous government. >
  
  So they'd have no problem with us bringing down their "errant" balloon? >
  
  it is down >
  
  “Just another unnecessary act by US warmongers.”
  -China, probably. >
  
  So I guess the other one over Latin America is another “mu-bad”?!! 🤨 >
  
  Actually there's 4 Chinese balloons still floating around:
  
  Sources also told CTV News U.S. intelligence knows of a total of at least four of these balloons from China sent to other countries, beyond the one currently over the U.S. That includes the one the Pentagon confirmed late Friday night floating over Latin America.
  This incident comes at a time of heightened tensions between China and the West. In a statement, the Chinese foreign ministry said the balloon did come from China and apologized for its entry into U.S. airspace, but insisted the balloon was used for civilian research purposes rather than espionage. >
  
  That's funny, because the Chinese government uses civilian research to conduct espionage >
  
  At a scale few comprehend and with an audacity fewer believe. >
  
  Are we supposed to believe that China didn't have any way of tracking their balloon? And if they did, and it was just an innocent weather balloon that got blown off course, what was stopping them from calling up the US and letting them know that shit happened, let's all be chill about it?
  I mean, we all know China is bullshitting, but they could at least come up with something more convincing... >
  
  Initially, I’d call bullshit on US military except China’s foreign ministry offered no explanation of where it came from or what research it was supposed to be doing. Further, it seems like any party that loses balloons the size of several buses would take care to know where it went and make the appropriate phone calls, which China did not. It’s all very curious. >
  
  There are also multiple balloons apparently. Another was found over recently I believe >
  
  I might believe the balloon somehow got blown way off course-
  If there wasn’t another one over South America. 
  Two just seems a little too much of a coincidence. 
  I guess it might be possible both balloons got caught up in the same winds or jet stream, but… eh. >
  
  Once is chance, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern. 
  I’m just waiting to read about the third one floating around so I can then jump to the ‘oh it’s totally intentional’ conclusion. >
  
  fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, uhhh cant get fooled again >
  
  *throws shoe* >
  
  *dodges*
  *throws other shoe*
  *dodges again* >
  
  George Bush don’t care about Shoe people >
  
  Hilariously, neither does Ye anymore. >
  
  Great follow up. >
  
  Adidas dropped him, didn't they? >
  
  From where? On his head? >
  
  Force Majeure in their vocabulary is " caught in the act". >
  
  Find a third balloon, and it is a majeure à trois