Chinese spy balloon over US
The timing is too much of a co-incidence to me. The US has finally started to call China out over Taiwan and the South China Sea. Called it a bigger threat than Russia, and has just struck a deal for bases in the Phillipines. Resistance to the slow coiling Chinese Dragon is growing.
This balloon, with its considerable payload hovering over the continental US, capable or not...is a message.
This balloon, with its considerable payload hovering over the continental US, capable or not...is a message.
n Costa Rica exports account for around 40 percent of GDP. Costa Rica´s main exports are electronic components (18 percent of total exports), medical equipment (7.3 percent), pineapples (7 percent) and bananas (6 percent). Costa Rica´s main export partner is the United States (37 percent of total exports). Others include: Netherlands, Panama, Hong Kong and Nicaragua.
However, always rumours about secret US bases in S.America.
However, always rumours about secret US bases in S.America.
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Biden Admin's indecisive incompetence over this all over US TV now - including comments from all the usual top commentators eg previous SecDef + various retired 3/4-stars.
Looks like they will finally be attempting a shootdown over Atlnatic.
FAA issued ground stop in area - F-22As + F-15Cs + supporting tankers scrambled
Looks like they will finally be attempting a shootdown over Atlnatic.
FAA issued ground stop in area - F-22As + F-15Cs + supporting tankers scrambled
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n Costa Rica exports account for around 40 percent of GDP. Costa Rica´s main exports are electronic components (18 percent of total exports), medical equipment (7.3 percent), pineapples (7 percent) and bananas (6 percent). Costa Rica´s main export partner is the United States (37 percent of total exports). Others include: Netherlands, Panama, Hong Kong and Nicaragua.
However, always rumours about secret US bases in S.America.
However, always rumours about secret US bases in S.America.
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BBC News reporting that Biden "is facing intense pressure domestically to shoot the object down." What is it with the Americans, thinking that the solution to every problem is to shoot it? It's not as though the US haven't flown plenty of their own weather balloons over China...
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Looked like the payload broke away when the balloon burst - that'll hit the ground hard.
Missile strike
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Probably trying to emulate Branson and be the first Chinese to circumnavigate the world in a balloon, but forgot to tell anyone. 
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