> “Instances of this kind of balloon activity have been observed previously over the past several years,” Ryder said
Seems more like someone wanted to stir up some feelings.
also note in the DOD press briefing they stated that this was markedly different than previous incursions due to primarily the duration of loitering.
also what are these comments..? openly lauding an adversarial state which is conducting flagrant surveillance operations in the continental united states? yikes.
This is definitely one of those situations. If US can fly spy planes over say Russia or China, why shouldn't they be allowed the same? If you shoot their stuff, they can shoot yours. Fair game I say (not dragging current russian war in ukraine into this, to which I am strong opponent and even donated my own drone to AFU when it started).
And adversarial to whom? The west is as adversarial to China as China is to the west.
You sound put off that the comments don't have enough patriotism. Lacking blind patriotism would in fact be called "neutral".
> common != it has happened before
It would be atypical to say "over the past several years" about a unique occurrence.
I think sometimes people complain that something isn’t news it’s just US news, while they’re on US channels populated or run by US folks. And you know, what do you expect?
So it always matters, but it's frequency determines whether it's newsworthy? I don't understand that position.