it's called lying. it's what happens when the government pays someone to speak to people who earn their living by lying to you. this is not a complicated thing to figure out. consider the following: > be you  > emperor of the greatest, but failing, empire on earth > other nations testing your mettle constantly > mysterious craft over your lands > you cant identify them > you cant track them > you cant catch them > you cant destroy them > you can't even figure out how the fuck they work or where they came from the time has come to make an announcement to the entire world, including all of your rival nations, to which one of these craft almost certainly belongs. you have two options: > announce you have detected the presence of enemy craft, assessed the threat level as minimal, and are currently determining appropriate reprecussions ooooooor: > autistically spaghetti-cannon out a rapidfire confession directly to those flagrantly violating your airspace with craft beyond your means of comprehending, much less dealing with, that you have no idea what the fuck is going on and that if those craft were capable of warfare your entire nation could be taken by a single one which do you choose, oh wise leader?
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