• USNewsJunkie@newsie.social
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    1 year ago

    @zephyreks Here’s another one for you then. See if you can comprehend what Brigadere General Pat Ryder is saying…

    "Ryder was asked Thursday whether he believes those U.S. mitigation efforts were responsible for the balloon’s failure to gather any info.

    “Certainly, the efforts that we made contributed,” he said."

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/chinese-spy-balloon-american-made-parts-transmit-data/story?id=100476856

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      1 year ago

      Last I checked, the Pentagon falls higher on the scale of “reliable statements by government” than some random General.

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        1 year ago

        @zephyreks dude I don’t know any other way to explain it to you so that you can comprehend it. The balloon was trying to collect information and was thwarted. You have it from a brigadier general that mitigation efforts certainly contributed to the balloon not collecting any information. You can try and act like it was just not collecting information out of the goodness of the Chinese’s heart, but that is a blatant misrepresentation of fact.

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          1 year ago

          Not according to the Pentagon, which last I checked was a more reliable source than a single General. A General can say whatever they want, but the Pentagon has to actually check facts.