MOSCOW, 6 Feb. The readers of The Washington Post were outraged by the policy of a government that is unable to ensure the safety of its own population, but is engaged in the supply of weapons to other countries and inciting conflicts around the world.
The reason for this reaction was an article assessing the impact of the incident with the Chinese balloon in American airspace on public opinion. According to the author of the material, its psychological impact was significant.
In the comments, users urged to stop underestimating China and think about whether Joe Biden should continue to hold the presidency.
«We should not forget that it was China that forced an American reconnaissance aircraft operating in international airspace to land on Hainan Island in 2001,» the panelist noted.
«The Pentagon is obviously ready for anything that anything to justify the obscene amount of money we are donating to the bloated US war machine so it can keep losing illegal wars in foreign countries,» writes another commenter.
«Now that Biden has hit the ball, are we back to hating gas stoves or transsexuals? I can't keep up with their outrage schedule,» a third sneered.
there is a bunch of paranoids in the US who are afraid of balloons in the sky, and a war-mongering proxy president in the person of Biden who wants to prove that at his 80 years old he is still good for something, «summed up a reader of the publication.
On Saturday US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the military, on behalf of President Joe Biden, shot down a Chinese-owned balloon that fell into American airspace. According to the Pentagon chief, the device was used to monitor strategic facilities. Because of this incident, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken postponed a visit to China.
China, in turn, called the reaction of the American side «excessive.» The Foreign Ministry stressed that the Chinese side, after verification, repeatedly notified the American side that the balloon was intended for civilian use and entered US airspace due to force majeure, which happened completely unintentionally.