Where is our unmanned balloon brigade? Surely we have the capability to launch an entire flotilla of balloons from one our Western European allies to nearly aimlessly float over the old USSR gathering weather data and hoping to drift over something of interest that our satellites completely didn't see.
Those Chinese are so clever, but they should have sent a stealth balloon. This one was too easy to spot. And surely they didn't want to get data on upper Canada where the balloon could have drifted. And it will likely have a self destruct mode so we can't shoot it down once it crosses over the Atlantic seaboard. It might be carrying balloon mail with more love letters to American politicians who expressed admiration for their and their neighbor's dear leaders. The possibilities are just endless. Or maybe it really is a weather balloon. Somehow I think we will learn more in the next few days, or not.
And don't call me Surely.
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