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But if you think about it, the balloon hysteria makes perfect cents:

“Lawmakers and lobbyists are pouncing on a Chinese spy balloon’s seven-day incursion over North America this month to push back against possible defense budget cuts”

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/15/lawmakers-spy-balloon-inflate-defense-spending-00083013

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POLITICO Lawmakers seize on spy balloon to inflate defense spending Lobbyists, meanwhile, are pitching new radars and other homeland defense systems to the Pentagon and Congress.
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