Apparently, the Chinese spy balloon isn’t the first. Additionally, according to the Pentagon, there are several more floating around over various countries. All of that said, what exactly is going on here and why doesn’t anyone just get rid of it?
These and other questions are posed by Tucker Carlson who seems as confused as anyone else about what exactly the nature of these Chinese Balloon things are all about. WATCH:
It does seem a little silly that our entire media apparatus is fixated on a Chinese balloon which could simply be destroyed if that was what the U.S. government really wanted to do. It’s all a little odd at this point…
I mean, what the heck else is going on while everyone is fixated on this balloon.
WASHINGTON DC – Not everyone in Washington is freaking out about the suspected Chinese spy balloon flying high over the United States. Some former officials say it’s giving U.S. diplomats exactly what they need: more leverage over Beijing.
The Chinese airship forced the U.S. military to scramble fighter jets, prompted lawmakers to demand answers from the Biden administration and led Secretary of State Antony Blinken to indefinitely postpone his trip to Beijing this weekend.
But Blinken was going to China without much hope of getting concessions on major issues such as Beijing’s support for Russia’s war on Ukraine, its human rights abuses or its threats to Taiwan. Now, some former officials who’ve worked on international negotiations say he may be in a stronger position, though that advantage may fade over time.
“This event definitely strengthens the hands of the United States,” said Heather McMahon, a former senior director at the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. “Anytime an espionage operation is exposed, [it] gives the advantage to the targeted nation.”
Blinken was preparing to see top officials in China on Sunday and Monday in a follow-up to President Joe Biden’s meeting with Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping in Bali in November. At the time, Biden pledged to “maintain open lines of communication” with Beijing amid worsening bilateral tensions.
The Pentagon’s announcement Thursday of an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon hovering over Montana changed that plan. In canceling Blinken’s trip, at least for now, the State Department said the incident “would have narrowed the agenda in a way that would have been unhelpful and unconstructive.” (read more)
According to the Politico ‘spin’, the appearance of the balloon is a good thing.
China sent Biden his balloon payment
It’s not Chinese, as it’s a DS balloon, and it is spying on USA citizens. Lots of militias in Montana and Wyoming, and these balloons can count the hairs on your head if no hat . Apparently the Biden group no longer has control over satellites, so they use these balloon, then say …Chinese?!
I always wonder if Biden had other spawn. Here it is braying at the Chinese UFO.
Good one!
This is pretty clearly a power move by the CCP. All the excuses I hear from people — “oh it’s just a weather balloon” are nonsensical at best. Everyone knows that you don’t need a balloon to look at targets these days, there are satellites for that.
If you are dealing with people that don’t yet understand how malicious (and buffoonish) this administration is, well you have your biggest example yet to show them.
Operation Hardtack (1958) was only a measly 1 kiloton EMP nuke – Hiroshima was ~15 kilotons, Nagasaki ~23 kilotons.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2023/02/chinese-balloon-threat-is-nothing-new-u-s-govts-operation-hardtack-exposed-the-risks-in-1958/
Too late to shoot it down. It should have been done immediately. The more appropriate response now is a massive upgrade to our weapons sales to Tiawan including tanks.
Sadly, this is Biden you’re talking about
No, sadly, this was Biden’s people who put the balloon up there to spy on ordinary USA citizens. You people still believe the MSM Narrative, but it’s never true. First, stop believing anything MSM even suggests is true.
Float millions of balloons over China tied to Winnie the Pooh plush toys
Very funny!
(Balloon vs. Obiden)
https://videy.co/v?id=TITbP0LL
Too bad Priestap & Strzok were too obsessed with Trump to watch the Chinese guy in their Nat Sec counter Intel department at FBI (where they still probably have Spy Hansson’s portrait on the wall) who gave away all of our Chinese intel and names of agents to China’s government on frequent trips home to see “a sick auntie”.
Well it is the FBI. If you have a perverted, mentally disabled relative the FBI has a spot for him.
I get so pissed off when Biden says the economy was crap before he came into office. It’s just absolute BS and I’m surrounded by people here in Cali that actually believe it
If you want to see Chinese espionage agents at work, just stroll through the various post-doc research labs at the UC schools, Stanford, Cal Tech, MIT, and the Ivies. Not just the students speaking Mandarin to each other but their Caucasian profs like convict Charles Lieber , former disgraced head of Chemistry at Harvard. Remember the 117 signatories from Stanford who petitioned the DOJ to stop Trump’s common sense program (of finally investigating Chinese spy networks in our labs) because it was RAAAAYCIST?? Remember, Chinese are NOT a race! China is a NATION. There are other Asian people we are best buddies with. I guess it’s too bad that our current and future enemies cannot be all Germans again. Where is the pressure against UC schools who keep letting in Chinese students (350,000 per year nation wide) based solely on CASH PAY tuition? Or are the UC Regents counting on free Chinese cash to fund their greatly underfunded behemoth retirement pension fund ?
I could tell you the name of one in the town I live in, the chair of an academic department at a state teacher’s college, once a cycling and skiing buddy, into “sustainability” and whatnot.
Sorry but the university stuff is out there. Are we that frightened the Chinese might get educated? I can appreciate some professor is working on some discovery that he could then capitalize on but it would be on him to use discretion as to who he shares his secrets with. And for the record, most of their research work is paid for by government grants. The idea when that program started was the new information gained was to be published and put into the public domain to be freely used.
“what the heck else is going on while everyone is fixated on this balloon”
The third Veritas Pfizer video, where a top executive admits to an undercover journalist that the vaccine is interfering with females menstruation cycles and THAT SHOULDN’T happen, and “supposedly Pfizer has no idea what is going on
THIS is HUGE HUGE HUGE
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/third-dr-j-t-walkerpfizer-project?sd=pf
We have known this for 2 years and an a$$hat from Pfizer finally admits it.
Ok but what was going to be done about that with or without the balloon to fixate on?
Biden giving money to Africa too.
Just hire Felix Baumgartner to go up in another Red Bull high-altitude balloon capsule and sidle alongside the Chinese Balloon and have him lasso it and then use BB gun to deflate the balloons of both capsules but then deploy chute on his capsule as he jumps clear with own parachute so we can gather the electronics on the ground when they gently land. I dunno!
What’s with Democrats and their reactions to balloons?? Remember Hillary at her Convention speech in 2016 enthralled and joyously surprised by a planned and unoriginal balloon drop from the convention center ceiling??
Have we EVER had a President this inept, corrupt AND wrong?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
NO
James Buchanan and his contributions to causing the civil war? Or maybe Hoover?
While he himself is inept, his handlers are not.
This current administration is performing their assignment very well.
Their Globalist/Satanist masters are pleased with them.
Yes, Barry “0bama” Soetoro, and this is his third term with the cauliflower brained puppet Joe “Pedo Peter” Biden..
I’ve screamed about Soetoro since he walked out of the White House. He didn’t leave D. C. He started installing things in the W.H. to spy on Trump. He is the leader of the Biden comedy show.
No.
This sounds like a mission for our SPACE FORCE. “Into the SKY!!” (Apologies to Angry Cop and his Space Force character, Pvt. Potato. Funniest thing you will see)
This Meme has evolved…
Revolver just came out with a rather technical article, telling that maybe we aren’t shooting it down because we CAN’T shoot it down. What an embarrassment!
https://www.revolver.news/2023/02/what-if-we-actually-cant-shoot-it-down/
Balloons and containers. Easily the best way to infiltrate nuclear bombs or weaponized viruses into the USA.
Aren’t you ever so happy that American Financial Scammers killed off American Industry to build a dangerous competitor/enemy in China?
11% of the U.S. economy produces goods. 89% is Government and Services (Deadweight/Overhead).
And the Free Ride ends with the U.S. dollar.
So now Biden is saying he’s going to wait until it’s over the Atlantic before he shoots it down. In other words, he’s going to allow it to fully perform it’s role over the US and transmit the results to China before he takes it down. Makes no farking sense.
Rest comfortably. Biden is sending the stealth rainbow kite to take care of the chicom balloon.
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251801839893214.html
Wonder how easily it could be recovered over the ocean, vs. on land?
Perhaps the current administration doesn’t want to recover it?
When some says “out of an abundance of caution” what they are actually saying is “based upon no objective facts”.
I do not believe there is a reason to shoot it down, why waste the armament. A pass or two overtop at speed within 100 yards would probably create enough turbulence to rupture the balloon or cause ejection of the payload. Look at all of the videos of low jet passes over a beach. Mach 0.8 should be sufficient.
My first reaction was that it must be a weather ballon. Lo and behold, China says it is and that they had lost control of it. That is not to say that weather ballons could not also be taking pictures but seriously. This administration is bent on world war and hardly trustworthy at all. I’m going with China’s explanation.
What’s the reason? We do the same thing to China. Since both sides do it, we don’t want to create a precedent for them to shoot-down our balloons.
We have to play nice with China – because our stupid neocons got us into a useless, expensive and draining war with Russia, and we could never afford to confront China in our present situation.
Joe Peking Biden is the most radical, creepy, perverted, venal, and treasonous president to ever gain entrance to the Oval Office. This degenerate is overseeing the wholesale destruction and liquidation of America – probably under the masterful hand of the great imposter, Barack Insane Obamao.
We are witnessing a full assault on our country. A foreign entity could not do more harm to our country than Peking Biden and the DemoNazi Party. Our border has been trampled under the feet of untold millions of illegal invaders who think they have the right to be put on American assistance; drugs from China are pouring into our streets and devastating untold thousands of lives; the “media” and “big tech” are effective propaganda and censorship arms of the DemoNazi Party; the military, intelligence and justice department have been gutted, replaced with traitors and Marxist lackies; the education system has been completely subverted into an indoctrination camp on par with the Chinese Cultural Revolution – perversion and racist ideology its main goal – he who controls the children, controls the future.
I have no doubt this assault on America is being orchestrated by the CCP who manipulated their stooge, Joe Peking Biden, into the Oval Office. We will enver know the full extent of this conspiracy, but we know the FBI actively participated in burying the truth of the Hunter Biden laptop corruption and censored that story as best they could before the 2020 election. Actions speak louder than their lying words. Nothing they can say can hide that distressing fact. They perniciously influenced an election in favor of their chosen candidate, a corrupt, lying, pervert. The FBI violates the consitution every single day with their entrapments and illegal activities – the most egregious being the unprecedented Gestapo raid on Mar-a-Lago!
I can’t help but feel that the Republican weak response to this reign of terror, and it is a reign of terror, is anemic at best. A last ditched effort to stop the country from sliding into the abyss.
I feel we are past the tipping point. Just that fact that Joe Peking Biden is protected by the intelligence agencies and FBI says everything.
If it was up to me, the hangings would being today.
So the balloon was shot down. There are still high flying jets heading to the area. I can see them from my house.
In a bassackwards way, might this be our ‘Sputnik Moment’…?
The entire administration has been bought off or suborned to the enemy.
Wolverines!
And what proof do we have that these are Chinese and not a three letter agencies balloons ?
Remember the Maine
Gulf of Tonkin
etc. etc.