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2023-02-04 a
GIANT CHINESE BALLOON I

IF THE BALLOON HAD BEEN A SERIOUS THREAT,
WE WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN TOLD ABOUT IT.
The media circus was to reinforce the "China is bad" narrative
and label our top trading partner an enemy.

"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

— Herman Göring, as recorded by Gustave Gilbert, from interviews of defendants at the Nürnberg Trials. From his book, Nuremberg Diary (1947).

Cut The BS – NOW

Nobody launches a "balloon" of that sort of size and mass without a means of "de-orbiting" it should it veer out of its expected flight envelope or on command.

I don't care if China intended it to enter our airspace or not (although I will assume they did); they most certainly had the ability to prevent it from doing so by sending it a command to come down before it did so. They didn't do that, on purpose.

Period, end of discussion, full stop.

The United States has full authority under both US and International law to shoot it down and did from the point at which it entered our EEZ's airspace. We did not have to wait and there is utterly no excuse for our failure to destroy it before it crossed over into the United States.

Nobody has the right to enter the airspace of a nation without permission. If you do it as a manned aircraft you can be forced down and, if you refuse to land, destroyed. An unmanned device, which this clearly is, can be destroyed without warning.

Something of that size and lifting capacity could easily have a thermonuclear warhead on board. Detonation of such at that height would produce minimal direct damage however nothing prevents the device from rapidly descending first and then exploding at, for example, 2 miles of altitude.

Oh, they'd never do that?

Sorry, that's not how it works. An unannounced and uncleared incursion by a heavy-lift air vehicle capable of carrying such a device must be presumed to have one on board with intent to use it. There are no "do overs" if you get this wrong.

Our military is derelict in permitting this craft into our airspace and our so-called "civilian leadership" is either incompetent or deliberately in league with the Chinese. Either way both must be removed and destroyed, replacing same with functional entities. The Pentagon appears to be more-concerned with what pronouns some "soldier" wants to use than whether a potential nuclear device is floating over several of our major cities and a decent part of our nuclear missile silos inventory.

We are a sovereign nation and its damn time we started acting like one. (read more)

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