I like how people here never question anything the American government tells the public when it comes to rival nations but they simultaneously refuse to trust the U.S. government on every other topic.

It’s definitely possible there are spy capabilities in the balloon but the government could also just easily escalate it and claim they found an unexploded nuke inside and the entire country would call for war without ever seeing the contents.

People here think only the Chinese government lies but the US government always tell the truth because they care so much about their citizens. /s

Like somehow propaganda can’t exist in western society and only those hive mind Chinese fools are dumb enough to believe everything the government tells them on the news.