 this morning we found out that or I guess over the weekend we found out that more of these UFOs have been shot down over the United States and Canada very little information about what they are balloons drones what exactly these these things are two of them were 20,000 feet above ground so in the area what commercial airlines operate so they were deemed a risk to commercial airlines the fourth one I'm not sure I think was was in a higher altitude. China's of course come out and said that the United States operates balloons over Chinese territory and Americans have come out and denied that and I mean it is the whole thing is a little comical it turns out that these UFOs are being traveled traveling over the United States for a long time and you know during the Trump administration there were a number of these balloons and other things that traveled but that the military did not discover that until after the fact the reason these three additional UFOs were discovered and shot down was because the US has increased the sensitivity of its radar so now they can get smaller objects and objects I guess that like like balloons that are not obviously detectable by radar I guess and in altitudes that I think the radar doesn't bother to look at so increased sensitivity has discovered a lot more of them it turns out that China has a massive surveillance program that uses these kind of these kind of I guess balloons or whatever they turn out to be kind of drones or propelled something it is part of their general spying on the rest of the world signal intelligence spying on our phone calls I'm sure they're listening into this to this YouTube channel although that they can get publicly so maybe maybe why waste anyway maybe some cameras who knows what's on these things but a bunch of I assume surveillance different types of surveillance the other the other I think possibility is that some of these UFOs are meant to test US detection capabilities test US missile or laser whatever capabilities if it may be one of these little things can get in and is not seen by lasers then by sorry by radar than maybe in a in a war situation a drone could be flown in with a missile or something else that might evade the radar so I guess the Chinese are now getting the signal that if the US sets its equipment to the right level of sensitivity then all of these all of these things can and will be detected and and that is a lesson learned for the Chinese I you know this is an ongoing this is ongoing game of espionage that is happening I mean the US basically spies on everybody we know that we know they spy on our you know the US spies we spy on our allies we spy on our friends was at the NSA at some point was listening to Angela Merkel's cell phone conversations we have why do we have satellites and very sophisticated satellites that can pick up all kinds of information from all kinds of places around the world who knows what else we have I don't know if the US uses balloons I'm sure it uses drones and all kinds of surveillance drones obviously it has used in the past all kinds of surveillance airplanes a waxes and so on all over the world I mean I don't know that there's an area of the world in which the United States does not actively spy on in one way or another and the same I'm sure it's true of China and I'm sure that Russia aspires the same thing although I think Russia doesn't have the capabilities and doesn't have the budget does they have the ability to do it so I mean this is a lot of hot air hot a balloon something like that I mean again this is all a consequence of the fact that our government keeps so many secrets from us but the fact that the Chinese spy in us should not be a secret to anybody should not be a surprise to anybody the fact that they spy on us in a variety of different ways using a variety of different techniques should not be a surprise to anybody so you know it is what it is the real danger I think is and this is something I think we need to be aware of and conscious of and follow is the real risk of escalation between the United States and in China when neither party really means to escalate that is kind of escalation out of default or escalation out of fear or escalation really without the real intent and without any kind of thoughtful intent you can see already the rhetoric in the US about the Chinese and what the Chinese are doing and the rhetoric in China is probably even worse vis a vis what the Americans are doing what they deserve and what they don't deserve and their fault is this and that this does not help and and indeed it only intensifies the potential for conflict it intensifies the potential for each country to make mistakes and to treat each other as enemies where it is not necessary for China and the United States to be enemies now one could argue that it's trying to become more authoritarian it will become one more of an enemy of the United States but there's no reason to accelerate that trend there's no reason to encourage that trend particularly there's no urgency to it the United States needs time to diversify its supply chains before it elevates China to the level of enemy so I think I think calm heads need a wall and with this like like most of these foreign policy issues people jump to to I think conclusions and jump to statements that are just irresponsible particularly when you take into account the context the context is the US and China spying on each other constantly in many ways that you probably know of and in many ways you probably don't know of and just discovering one other way one new way that the spying is going on means very little I don't think I don't think the United States benefits right now from a cold or certainly not from a hot war with China the United States needs to be on alert it needs to be ready for for for example a Chinese invasion of Taiwan or something like that the United States certainly needs to be bolstering its military and its intelligence capabilities in anticipation of conflict in the future given the direction China is heading but there's absolutely zero reason to use rhetoric or anything else that accelerates without compromising anything just accelerates the likelihood of conflict it's it's just it's just it's a sign of weakness and it is completely unnecessary whoever happens to be in the White House at every given point in time. 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