You are simply making up an elaborate fantasy, the claim is that 14 people are in Ukraine, this thread says at the embassy, but you have to write an adventure novel for them.
And the Chinese spy balloon was not transmitting data real time back to China. How many times has the Biden foreign policy team lied to us? I am amazed how gullible you are when it comes to Biden, Blinken, Nuland, Sullivan, Milley,and Austin.
Hell, they have trumpeted the Afghan debacle as a triump. They gaslight us all the time.