fragments of those droughns. t drones. the damage was described as insignificant. two sought medical help but no one had to be hospitalized. but this still crosses a rubicon really for the russian people. as you say this is the first time we ve seen not only the sort of amount of drone accounts in kyiv this morning, the result of 31 drones launched at that city, but also in moscow itself. this really does bring it home to the russian people. no response from the kremlin as of yet. but a member of president putin s united russian party saying that this is the new reality that we have to now recognize, we need to drastically step up our defenses. he said do not underestimate the enemy. so this is something that the russian people are now having to recognize and reckon with. having said that though in the climate that exists in russia, one of feerks onar, suppression
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was it drones, satellites. was there an opportunity to drop and scatter devices that could be powered by solar energy whichto t would give you unlimited surveillance back to the ccp. great question. a lot of people have minimized the balloon as obsolete technology. whology wouloverd they send obse technology over the united states if it was not going to provide anything of value as the biden administration has triedto to tell you.- is the truth is stratospheric balloons, because of recentop technologies can be maneuverable, can loop around, can hover and do things that low earth orbit satellites cannottt do.thin we know from public reporting thatx china, for at least six years has been successfully deploying payloads including drones from stratospheric balloons and what is publiclys. know mn is the u.s. military anj
mainland and have this kind of slow, weak, frankly, terrible response by the biden administration. maria: i want to ask you what kind of capability if it has. but just to be clear, you re saying there were not three spy balloons from china that entered the united states air space and traveled and was able to do what we ve seen this week. i m telling you that very clearly. listen, maria, it s every time something goes wrong in the biden administration, there s one of two responses. they either find a way to blame the trump administration, or they try and find a way to say the trump administration did it too, and that s what they re trying to the say here. this happened during the trump administration. it didn t. you would have heard about it before. maria: let me ask you about the capabilities of this balloon. what do you think they it was carrying, the payloads of different things? was it drones, satellites? what and was there an
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