WAH! 😪 WAH! 😪 China wants their balloon back. Should we give it to them?

[sage2021]

I say finder's keepers.

[Gummy_Cluster]

How about we trade the balloon for all of our Blackhawk helicopters they took out of Afghanistan?

[Gummy_Cluster]

Thanks for the MHO.

[Stressyalaire]

They should have kept that balloon in China then.

[SnowedIn]

Yes. And here's why: the day will come when something like this happens to one of our pieces of equipment. Or a human. This will make it easier when that time comes. Of course we need to scan and gather intelligence on the balloon first but, yeah, give it back.

[Sixgunsound]

They want something back that they deny the existence of? I don't follow, but that's probably because I haven't been following the story.

[Paul_in_Indy]

@Sixgunsound I have not heard the PRC deny the existence of this equipment.

[SnowedIn]

@Sixgunsound... they have acknowledged it but claim it's meteorological equipment.

[Sixgunsound]

That can be easily proven or disproven based on recovered wreckage.

[Surely]

If China wants to seem so innocent. They should have notified the US whenever they claimed to have lost control of their balloon!
Then been straight forward as to what its purpose was.
That is providing that the Biden administration is being straight with the US citizens?
My question is. Couldn’t they have found a way to bring it down without blowing it to pieces?

[WindAtMyBack]

Give it back after it's been completely inspected. If there is something they don't want to give back they can pretend they didn't find it. After all, they can both play the game of plausible deniability. Who knows, maybe that's the reason they shot it down over the Atlantic. They can also both play the game of "Don't let them know that you know that they know that you know, or what you don't know".

[BCA6010]

In pieces, preferably reassembled into a sculpture that spells out some vulgarities.

I'm willing to bet we will send something back to them, after we've examined it anyway.

[NewsReader]

We should keep it so they can't use the same one again. We basically took away one of their resources. That's good for us.

[Guy13]

I does not matter. Propaganda. The communications were complete way before the balloon was taken down.

[LiamJHayden]

I don't care. Should have shot it down long before it was done. Now the terrorists know Biden won't do anything till it clears or nearly clears US airspace and can drop something nasty on a city using this method.

[exitseven]

The Chinese laughed when Biden let the balloon go all the way across the country and they are laughing because they are telling Biden to give it back and will laugh when Biden actually gives it back.

[DubiousIntentions]

Since the US is $900 billion in debt to China it would probably be beneficial to do so. Plus Biden has financial dealings with China and doesn't want to have his allowance cut off.

[exitseven]

@DubiousIntentions Trump would have no problem with making China take a haircut on the 900 bil as a down payment on the damages caused by covid.

[DubiousIntentions]

Trump had a way with other countries leaders. Biden just seems to piss them off.

[exitseven]

@DubiousIntentions he does not piss them off , they are too busy laughing at him.

[DubiousIntentions]

I'm sure the Saudis are for sure. 😝😝😝

[MementoMori777]

We can give them an American one and call it tradzies

[Rangers]

The only thing China should get is enough nukes to ensure there isn't one life form still alive in China when it's done

[WellGreetingsISay]

We all spy on each other. If any country takes down another country's spying equipment I'd say they're allowed to keep it.

[FunkyMonkee]

They sent it over here to us! We got it!! Fuck `em!! Bunch of Indian givers!!

[Damian69]

They could've at least notified the US, Canada, Mexico, or any other countries they lost control of their balloon

[Anonymous]

Yes, I am from china myself. You were never given permission to shoot down our ballon. We weren’t spying on you guys. We were only testing equipment for engineering students. We were supposed to bring it back. This was only an experiment. We weren’t spying on Americans. You guys aren’t that interesting. Give us our ballon back or we will actually spy on you for reals.

[MadAndBankrupt]

Trump would have returned it because He’s wiser than fkn democrats

[Iron_Man]

Do you have any idea what was found in the balloon?

[Anonymous]

China has never had any expectation of getting their balloon back. In fact, they are surprised that it was not shot down the second it entered USA air space.

[SpaceGalaxy]

I would ask them... Okay, if i give you back the balloon, what will i get in return?

[Fuentes]

Lol the cry baby commies want it back? yeah let me take a shit on it first haha

[worldscolide]

Um hell no.