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It's a dirty job (and nobody wants to do it)

Oh God, What Now?

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A Chinese Balloon Shot Down Over US Airspace

Seth Tevers says the story of a Chinese balloon shot down over US airspace is a strange one. And it claims it was just a weather balloon while still castigating the US for popping it above South Carolina. The alibi about the balloon just being weather balloon which conveniently is too high for fighter jets to get to it is a very plausible one, he says. It's exactly the alibi the Americans use for their spy balloons over Russia in the 1950s when doing exactly this. So yes, it's a blatantly transparent thing but of course it's one of those things where we know you're lying and no one can really call that one another's bluff.

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