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What’s in the background? Undoubtedly, a latent tension between China and the United States that we have been explaining for some time now could be the new cold war, especially depending on how it ends. the invasion of Ukraine. In this context, the balloons would not be an anecdote but one more step in an escalation of tension similar to the ones we have seen so many times in movies about the Cold War between the United States and the USSR. Common sense would lead us to think that in the 21st century espionage would be a cybernetic affair and not from the days of Jules Verne. But we also know that the devil is in the small details. We will continue exploring what happens with the balloons, but given the latest experiences, we are inclined to say that nothing is good.
Governments have always lied and journalism has developed in the last 200 years a method to combat these and other lies. The challenge of the digital environment is that now the lies reach the public without often going through the media and journalism has to be dedicated not to deny the powerful but to refute the masses who are often also their most loyal readers and, deep down, their clients. In short, now the trial balloons reach us from the most unexpected places but we are already on our guard.