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999,999,999 Balloons Go By

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There has to be a limit as to the number of targets a mobile air defense system network can effectively track. Overwhelm Russia with a bazillion dummy balloons and a few dozen other items with carefully selected payloads.
RayfordSteele, Feb 07 2023

99 luftballoons https://www.youtube...watch?v=Fpu5a0Bl8eY
[Voice, Feb 07 2023]

Chaff https://en.wikipedi...e)#:~:text=balloons
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       While you're busy "overwhelming" their air defence systems with balloons, they will be equally busy launching their unstoppable mach 9 speed Zircon nuclear missiles by way of a response.
xenzag, Feb 07 2023
  

       Gentle overwhelm [+]   

       Puts me in mind of Gandhi's 1000s-persons 'sit ins' which ground the oppressor overlords' government business to a screeching halt.   

       //carefully selected payloads// Snacks, toys, confetti? Pasta, caviar, chocolate? Medical marijuana, bandages, iodine?   

       If we do the same sh*t we've always done, we'll get the same sh*t we've always gotten. Therefore, I vote we try a bazillion balloons' psychological anti-warfare, as baked by the women of Ukraine: rearrange street signs, monkey with services 'expected' to be functional by occupying forces (eg: clay in the bread left for soldiers to steal), hand sunflower seeds to the occupying soldiers so that when they die flowers will grow.
Sgt Teacup, Feb 07 2023
  

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//carefully selected payloads// Snacks, toys, confetti? Pasta, caviar, chocolate? Medical marijuana, bandages, iodine?
//
  

       Satratoxin-H, Mycotoxin T-2, Saxitoxin... are you detecting a pattern? Oh so many options...
a1, Feb 07 2023
  

       I was wondering if there was *something* in that balloon shot down by the US.   

       What's needed is a giant vacuum to follow the shooting-'em-down bullet/rocket to aid in remediation, 'recovery' and examination of the remains.
Sgt Teacup, Feb 07 2023
  

       // I was wondering if there was *something* in that balloon shot down by the US //   

       And yet, so many were yammering "SHOOT IT DOWN RIGHT AWAY!!!" Even without biowarfare, I think waiting until the payload could have a water landing/impact was the best optio.
a1, Feb 07 2023
  

       This is an obvious tactic to which you've attached a current event and suggested target. [-]
Voice, Feb 07 2023
  

       What?!? You mean we can't just point to something that exists and say "Do THIS but BIGGER?" Shit, there goes at least half of some our most prominent bakers' ideas.
a1, Feb 07 2023
  

       //This is an obvious tactic to which you've attached a current event and suggested target// Marked-for-tagline !
Sgt Teacup, Feb 07 2023
  

       I found the visual entertainment. It's not for real you all, it's just for us.
blissmiss, Feb 07 2023
  
      
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