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I think so; the volume of comments implying that either:

1. The US is just amplifying this to justify a war

2. The balloons are totally civilian

3. Aliens

Strike me as a relatively coarse influence campaign, notable mainly for its volume. Not sure if the ramp up is to save face, or part of a larger effort. Similar efforts were notable before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.



the Russian military had this strange anti-satellite missile test - last January, right before the war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvdQcDDUV1o


You could be right about that, but Occam's razor (there's lots of morons on the internet) is also a plausible explanation. Maybe a bit of both.

I suspect a lot of "disinformation" by hostile parties just serves to provide the idiots with material that appeals to them, and they run with it.


The confusing part is: why would enemy propaganda be focused on this relatively obscure board?


It's not. There's plenty of that elsewhere as well.


Exactly. So we mostly have useful idiots here.




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