Satire aside…
What is important to know is WHAT EQUIPMENTS are in that balloon. Have we even tried to retrieve them? Or are they now under the deep blue sea, to be abandoned and forgotten.
Or have the Chicoms gotten to the wreckage before we did? If so, that’s gross incompetence on our part.
“What is important to know is WHAT EQUIPMENTS are in that balloon. “
No doubt the deal between Xi and PINO was that everything would be destroyed. So, I’m guessing... smithereens.