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Strategy of tension type operations IMO. They want western audiences panicked like they were when sputnik was new. They want them to feel they NEED to do the new world war so there isn't that much resistance if they decide to pull the trigger on fighting Russia and certainly for their planned upcoming fight against China. This may be a case of one hand not knowing what the other is doing sure but it's not Iranians, it's not China, it's probably not Russia, and it's not extraterrestrial life. US just claims to have succeeded in their joint Navy-Army hypersonic weapons platform finally working so there's that too, once that's operational and they have them built up in some numbers it's go time versus China.
once Xi confirms, since obviously any extraterrestrials trying to make diplomatic contact rather than doing interplanetary imperialism would start with the leader of the most advanced society (obviously disqualifies capitalist ones). I'd also accept confirmation from people who work with elephants, marine mammals, other primates, corvids, or fungus.
