The illegal overflight of American territory, from west to east, from February 1 to 4, 2023, by a Chinese weather balloon, sparked political and media hysteria in the United States.
After three days of one-upmanship between Republican and Democrat parliamentarians, relayed continuously by Fox News, the White House has made a decision.
The balloon, it seems as big as three buses, was shot down off South Carolina by an air-to-air missile fired by an F-22, in a sequence delivered "live" to all television channels.
The pinnacle of the grotesque was reached when President Joe Biden publicly praised the US armed forces.
The pilots of the Battle of Midway, who achieved real feats, must have turned in their graves.
The Chinese pleaded the technical incident and the Americans were indignant at such a violation of their airspace (at an altitude where no aircraft, civil or military, flies) by a balloon qualified as a spy.
The Army…
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