I’m just spit-balling here, not more than that. Work with me on this silliness.
What if this story (from PRC State media) is actually true:
Meaning, something that seems like #SpyBalloons are drifting over #China…
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What if this story (from PRC State media) is actually true:
https://twitter.com/qingqingparis/status/1626147285636878337??
Meaning, something that seems like #SpyBalloons are drifting over #China…
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If I were writing a movie script, my opening fast/cut scenes would depict “#SpyBalloons ” causing panic in Canada, the USA…and then in China. Cross accusations would heighten tensions between East & West.
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If I were writing a movie script, my opening fast/cut scenes would depict “#SpyBalloons ” causing panic in Canada, the USA…and then in China. Cross accusations would heighten tensions between East & West.
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Scene: a #Russian dictator is in his war room, going over plans to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the “liberation” of #Ukraine. He asks a General, “When do we start launching the rest of the diversionary balloons? Are the ones for Straits ready?”
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Scene: a #Russian dictator is in his war room, going over plans to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the “liberation” of #Ukraine. He asks a General, “When do we start launching the rest of the diversionary balloons? Are the ones for Straits ready?”
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Scene: U.S. Congressman shouting in a press conference, “We are spending billions of tax-payer $$s sending tanks, missiles & other armaments to Kyiv for an endless war with Russia, but Biden can’t keep damned Chinese Communist balloons out of our skies!”
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Scene: U.S. Congressman shouting in a press conference, “We are spending billions of tax-payer $$s sending tanks, missiles & other armaments to Kyiv for an endless war with Russia, but Biden can’t keep damned Chinese Communist balloons out of our skies!”
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Scene: Prime Minister’s residence, Tokyo: Foreign Minister briefing PM, pouring over satellite images. FM tells PM, “We can’t be certain, of course, but this row of 3 balloons over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands appear to be from China's Hainan region."
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Scene: Prime Minister’s residence, Tokyo: Foreign Minister briefing PM, pouring over satellite images. FM tells PM, “We can’t be certain, of course, but this row of 3 balloons over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands appear to be from China's Hainan region."
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Scene: closed door session UN Security Council. Cross accusations & shouting about who is sending balloons to spy on whom.
Cut to Scene 6, Feb24: #Russian President & staff watch live vid of Russian tanks pouring across the border towards Kharkiv and Kyiv...
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Scene: closed door session UN Security Council. Cross accusations & shouting about who is sending balloons to spy on whom.
Cut to Scene 6, Feb24: #Russian President & staff watch live vid of Russian tanks pouring across the border towards Kharkiv and Kyiv...
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...with bombing sorties ahead of them “softening things up.” Russian President raises a shot of vodka to a general, chuckles & says, “Thanks for the balloons, Boris.”
Laughter. Clinking glasses.
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...with bombing sorties ahead of them “softening things up.” Russian President raises a shot of vodka to a general, chuckles & says, “Thanks for the balloons, Boris.”
Laughter. Clinking glasses.
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Scene: Back at fighting at UN Sec Council. Russian Ambassador is listening as China, Japan, Canada and US trade insults & accusations. His phone pings. Text is a URL link sent from Moscow.
Ambassador puts ear plugs into the phone, clicks on URL, and grins.
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Scene: Back at fighting at UN Sec Council. Russian Ambassador is listening as China, Japan, Canada and US trade insults & accusations. His phone pings. Text is a URL link sent from Moscow.
Ambassador puts ear plugs into the phone, clicks on URL, and grins.
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Cut to the URL that is making the Russian Ambassador grin:
Good thing I'm not writing intel briefings, or movie scripts. Just spit-balling...
Cut to the URL that is making the Russian Ambassador grin:
Good thing I'm not writing intel briefings, or movie scripts. Just spit-balling...
Or this...prescient?
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