<sigh> It’s all so tedious and predictable. I know that politicians from both parties go on the Sunday talk shows to tout the party line. But the Republicans are just so devoted to spinning pure bullshit. Little Marco Rubio was just on This Week and he was claiming that we know China’s intent for sending this balloon over just prior to Blinken’s visit. They knew the U.S. would see it and have to publicize it and shoot it down, preferably sooner than we did. (Of course he had to get that little dig in.) The reason, you see, is to promote the idea that we are a fading former superpower and we can’t even respond adequately to a Chinese balloon. So you in, say, Indochina can’t rely on the U.S. in a crisis. They’re weak and aren’t a reliable partner.
Hey dumbfuck, I’ve got a one word response to that suggestion, one that everyone in the world is watching: UKRAINE.