Dougie93 Posted February 5 Report Share Posted February 5 (edited) reports are that the gondola is in fact quite large the size of three school buses so that is definitely not a weather balloon in this photo, you can see how large the balloon actually is, in relation to the F-22 bear in mind that the balloon is 7,000 feet above the Raptor you can make out the details of the gondola, you can see the four propellers from almost two miles away so that thing is actually huge, the size of an airliner you can see the propellers, because they are not moving, more indication of malfunction Edited February 5 by Dougie93 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 (edited) On 2/3/2023 at 1:23 PM, Infidel Dog said: How worried should we be about this? The US flew U2 missions over the Soviet Union. This is not a Cold War. ==== America won the economic war, the ideological war. These guys in Vietnam won an important battle. Nowadays, around the world, people are free to trade. Free to travel. Imagine. Edited February 6 by August1991 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 I fear that experts in Washington DC now are like the experts in European capitals in the early 1900s. These supposed advisors - wise leaders - believed that they were smart - and yet they were about to destroy themselves. And involve ordinary people in destruction ===== Some Americans foolishly think that this is a battle with Hitler - 1939. No, this is a war that can be avoided by negotiation - 1914. We could have have avoided this war Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 Take pride. You Americans won the Korean War. Your Leftists (Aaron Sorkin etc) may think that you lost the Vietnam Battle but you won the Cold War. Germany is one country, civilised again. People can travel from Poland to Spain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 God help us all if people like Aaron Sorkin are deciding policy in Washington now. Or Victoria Nuland. In the 1910s, such people lead ordinary men - millions - to death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 This war is avoidable. I do not speak as Neville Chamberlain in 1938, I speak as Otto von Bismarck in 1890. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nationalist Posted February 6 Report Share Posted February 6 And I speak for myself in 2023. Quit dumping money and obsolete munitions on Ukraine and focus on what is actually our business. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xul Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 I'm wondering when will US Navy begin to torpedo Chinese spy drifting bottles....?😜😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrarian Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 (edited) 12 hours ago, xul said: I'm wondering when will US Navy begin to torpedo Chinese spy drifting bottles....?😜😂 I heard the Communist Party put forward Mr. Yi, you know him for sure. He is the gentleman that likes to rant at press conferences. He thinks the world stage is like in Beijing when XI speaks, everyone has to keep straight. So I think he ranted about 10 balloons invading Chinese airspace last year, the communists always overexaggerate their numbers. Yesterday, also a party-run newspaper starting running propaganda that their military is getting ready to shoot down their own incursion. No more news about that. We have 4 so the Party gave the order for all the soldiers to say: 10 balloons invaded China! Oh, this is in between his visit to Russia 😄 If the people that lead China think they can build the future with Russia's own mafia, good luck. 😂 I have seen their joint naval exercises, the technology reminds me of a distant past. Edited February 13 by Contrarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contrarian Posted February 13 Report Share Posted February 13 Spy balloons: When they started & how they've been used by militaries. Forces News Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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