China plays the long game. They have a long history of probing to test US reactions. This balloon most likely was a spy vehicle. If you watch the first few seconds of the video of the explosion, you can see the capsule falling away from the balloon and several flashes and puffs of smoke from/around the capsule itself. That was probably small explosives to self-destruct any secret spy devices before we could recover them.
If the purpose was just to spy on the US, they could have done it with a much smaller balloon. They did this to spy AND to see if we would allow such a large balloon to transit the US. We did. And yes, I don't think we can tell if a balloon is carrying an H-bomb just by flying by it with a jet at 400mph.
if china wanted to nuke america, it would nuke america and we couldn't do much to stop it. It's not going to nuke america with a completely trackable balloon.
Exactly. China has 100+ ICBMs that could strike most of the US.
People seem to romanticize China has being especially long-term or clever. Their reaction to COVID, HK, and their real estate sector proves they are just as fumbling and corrupt as most governments.
The WH has reported that Biden has gone full Karen on China and demanded to see their manager. He claims he didn’t receive his stuffed unicorn for popping all the balloons.
Why did Biden have the balls to just blow the balloon out of the sky but Trump refused 3x during his presidency?
I’m not getting it.
Maybe it has something to do with Trump's Chinese bank account that he felt motivated to lie about... Or maybe his daughters Chinese patents and fashion wear biz.
Hey, while we are on the subject of the Chinese, what happened to that Chinese spy that that was hanging around Mar A Lardo property with high tech devices? And what about Jared Kushner asking his daughter to sing a worshipful song of praise for XI when they met.
Weird that Trump is so hard nose when he is speaking to his gullible base but his actions are the opposite. Reminds me of his "nobody was tougher than me on Putin" line and his claim that he was such a tough guy on Kim Jung that he stopped his nuclear testing. of course that was before his love letters him.
Why did Biden have the balls to just blow the balloon out of the sky but Trump refused 3x during his presidency?
I’m not getting it.
Maybe it has something to do with Trump's Chinese bank account that he felt motivated to lie about... Or maybe his daughters Chinese patents and fashion wear biz.
Hey, while we are on the subject of the Chinese, what happened to that Chinese spy that that was hanging around Mar A Lardo property with high tech devices? And what about Jared Kushner asking his daughter to sing a worshipful song of praise for XI when they met.
Weird that Trump is so hard nose when he is speaking to his gullible base but his actions are the opposite. Reminds me of his "nobody was tougher than me on Putin" line and his claim that he was such a tough guy on Kim Jung that he stopped his nuclear testing. of course that was before his love letters him.
It has been reported that Biden’s lawyers chartered a dive boat yesterday in Myrtle Beach in order to retrieve more of Biden’s classified documents. #Tranparency
Biden had so much fun shooting down the Chinese balloon, he asked the Pentagon if he could go to the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta to try and win another stuffed animal for his grand daughter he doesn’t acknowledge.
Why did Biden have the balls to just blow the balloon out of the sky but Trump refused 3x during his presidency?
I’m not getting it.
It just shows you what a badass Joe is. He sent the message to the rest of the world that if you send a spy balloon we’ll shoot that mofo down right after it floats across Alaska and the entire continental United States. #dontfwithjoe
Why did Biden have the balls to just blow the balloon out of the sky but Trump refused 3x during his presidency?
I’m not getting it.
It just shows you what a badass Joe is. He sent the message to the rest of the world that if you send a spy balloon we’ll shoot that mofo down right after it floats across Alaska and the entire continental United States. #dontfwithjoe
weird that you think biden should overrule the judgment of the military on this.
I feel like I am at center court of a tennis match watching the right wing see saw back and forth with hot takes. First it was Shoot it down now or Biden is a wimp. Then there was the Biden is weak because Trump would have never allowed it here. Then it got shot down and right wingers are claiming it is too late. Now that the military has confirmed that Balloons have flown before during Trumps presidency and there was wisdom in waiting to shoot it down to gain intel, they are pivoting to "the military is BS, I trust Trump". Some are claiming that Biden is not dumb to shoot it down and overreacted.
It just shows you what a badass Joe is. He sent the message to the rest of the world that if you send a spy balloon we’ll shoot that mofo down right after it floats across Alaska and the entire continental United States. #dontfwithjoe
weird that you think biden should overrule the judgment of the military on this.
want to explain that?
Pay attention, fool. Badass Joe doesn’t care what the military thinks. Just look at the Afghanistan withdrawal. Badass Joe does what the f badass Joe wants.
"Those previous balloon flights were much shorter in duration, possibly explaining why some went undetected at the time, the senior administration officials said. One official said that much of the information on the flights was pieced together later."
Hmm, sounds like China would only risk sending a balloon over the entire continental United States under the weak Biden administration.
Anyone with any sense at all could tell you this thing can provide very little data to China, like high quality pictures etc… it has no way to transmit large volumes of data back to China … it’s not like they have a massive data link over the US .. they don’t have GEO data coverage over the US and if they did .. US could easily jam the transmission.
Well the military said it can see whiskers on a cat. But I will go with what you said.
WW3 is about to pop off and our administration is just letting a Chinese balloon fly around? What a complete f*cking failure.
How that crow tasting! And trump did nothing.
Biden is destroying the M'aga Trump disinformation by offering Trump the defense briefing again, that he apparently forgot about, telling him about past China spy balloons during his administration.
BIDEN WINS AGAIN! TRUMP LOSES AGAIN. This is just too easy.
The US is considering sending reciprocal balloons China’s way to initiate a distinguished tradition of twenty-first century geopolitical balloon diplomacy.
Send balloons, paper airplanes, kites…whatever. Badass Biden don’t give a sh1t. He’ll send 50 missles to shoot them down next time. He’s just that badass.
Biden is destroying the M'aga Trump disinformation by offering Trump the defense briefing again, that he apparently forgot about, telling him about past China spy balloons during his administration.
BIDEN WINS AGAIN! TRUMP LOSES AGAIN. This is just too easy.
Nope, no one briefed the Trump administration about spy balloons when they were supposedly flying over the US. I'm sending CNN as an approved lib news source for you. Another strike for liberal disinfo!
The transiting of three suspected Chinese spy balloons over the continental US during the Trump administration was only discovered after President Joe Biden took office, a senior administration official told CNN on Sunday.
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