Apparently, the Chinese surveillance airship has been taken out of commission inside the 12-mile range of U.S. territorial waters on the South Carolina Atlantic coast.
Delivering remarks to the press pool, Joe Biden confirmed the Chinese dirigible was taken down. According to his statement, Biden ordered the airship to be shot down last Wednesday (lol sure), but the military advised him to wait until it crossed the U.S. and could be taken down over water.
Several U.S. jet fighters were seen circling the coastline, and the FAA had shut down the airspace above the Atlantic near Myrtle Beach prior to the operation to remove or destroy the surveillance airship.
General Michael A. Minihan´s Readiness Memorandum Of 02/01/2023!!!
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/usaf-general-warns-of-war-with-china-over-taiwan-in-2025
Texas froze over and Maine is colder than Mars.
It’s very possible that may have something to do with the flight path of a balloon.
The trajectory of this administration is in similar conditions this week.
Just wait till in the morning. The Sunday Morning Propaganda shows and their Goobermint talking heads will spin…..er….tell us all about how Joe Xiden is a hero and 10 reasons why the military couldn’t shoot down the “balloon” until it crossed the whole country . There will be enough ‘hot air” about this “Balooney” to fill enough balloons to float around the world.
Are spy satellites now fair game when over a foreign nation’s air space? Formerly, there was a debate over the technology used by the air craft; wings and/or rocket propulsion were always fair game, but balloons, especially over 80,000 feet were in a legal gray area.
Satellites are just balloons that use momentum instead of flotation to escape the effects of gravity. Have we not just drawn a line that says that while you can spy unmolested above the Karman line, you cannot spy below that line?
Poorer nations might object to having this limitation imposed upon them. Richer nations might just declare you cannot spy from either side of the Karman line.
Sometimes it’s best to leave such questions unanswered.
So. Let’s put this to the test. Let’s send a “weather balloon” over mainland China and see what happens.
I’ll be willing to say that they won’t let it just cruise over the mainland and then shoot it down after it’s done it’s weather observations.
I think it was Allowed to spy on us. Biden regime are clearly in bed with CCP.
So they planned this from Wednesday, and didn’t have a recovery ship ready to go off the East Coast? 3 days yet they still can’t get a ship there for a couple more days? really?
“I told them to do it.” but they didn’t do it on Wednesday! Hey ChiCom Joe you should have shot it down the moment it entered our 12 mile limit on the Pacific Ocean side not on the Atlanta Ocean side!!! So the Pentagon either ignored his order or talked him down into waiting. This is tough guy Joe Biden in aviator sunglasses, you know the guy that dealt with Corn Pop! ChiCom Joe is a daily embarrassment to the country! Slamming the barn door after the horse got out and the ChiComs got everything they wanted!!! Xi Zinging must be pleased if not laughing!
Sundance et. al.,
I keep staring at the still picture of joe (saluting off AF1) and cannot help but think his handlers use a body double at times. One example – when joe did a video announcement of contracting covid and how he’d be working with his staff remotely while being treated. I remember thinking, “That guy looks 10-15 years younger than usual, and he is supposed to be ill?”.
When joe is being led around by the Easter Bunny or sitting/staring with his mouth agape, or shaking hands with the air, or this still picture – that is joe!
I’ll ask it again.
What’s all that white stuff that explodes up and out of it, and hangs in the air well after the containment layer has sunk into the sea?
Can any of our MAGA 20 please get answers for the American public?
Did we get sniffers up to test the air continuously behind and under this thing for pathogen dispersal or radiation leaks or signatures?
Do we have an “alert ” program operational on the ground on high alert for people or animals getting sick in the next 3 weeks?
Do we have soil and water testing ongoing underneath its path?
Did we have sufficient surveillance on it at all times to know whether it dropped off drones, canisters, or anything else, even as small as an Easter egg?
Will any new intrusion be taken down the millisecond it crosses US airspace?
What are, in fact, the upper limits of our legal ability to shoot down objects over our airspace? Should we respect that limit or should it be changed in light of this event?
The more the government tells us this was a surveillance device, the more I wonder whether it was also a weapon, or a weapons test.
Some of the uproar looks like it plays into the developing get rid of Biden theme from the uniparty.
Let’s not let other important questions get lost in a hyperfocus on the bumbling dementia boy. His being compromised by the CCP is old news. Klain and Deese just jumped ship. If the rats are leaving, what do they know is coming?
This isn’t about Joe. The delay in shooting down the balloon, the continuous exposure of illegally stored high security documents, the release the atrocious actions of Joe’s son, etc., etc., is just to convince Jill that she needs to back off. She isn’t going to be running for President-behind-the scenes in 2024.
BEFORE the balloon ENTERED U.S. airspace was the right time to shoot it down.
Waiting until AFTER it surveilled missile silos (upper Mid West), SAC bases, the Charleston navy base and other U.S. assets is like closing a barn door after the cattle got out;-( The White House & military KNOW that balloon transmitted soon after collecting information.
LOL!!! You think that actual Chinese spy SATELLITES haven’t seen these things before???
Indeed.
Right you are. All this was was a test . We failed! Biden has sold us out to the CCP. AGAIN!
Mr. Brown, half wits know shooting down the balloon before it entered U.S. airspace was the proper course of action. Why? Doing so would have shown the U.S. will proactively defend U.S. territory. In contrast, the delay suggests the current White House is weak, corrupt (Chinese entities gave Biden’s family $1+ billion) or both. Also, it would have eliminated the opportunity for the balloon to gather information Chinese satellites can NOT obtain.
This is the most absurd story, and while I’m not surprised that MSM is buying into this, the fact that alternative media is doing the same, is pretty surprising. The Chinese send spy satellites over the US all the time. We constantly hear about their ‘sneaky’ way of infiltrating the US, whether through Huawei, Tik Tok, industrial espionage, funding, etc. But now, that sneaky CPC (or CCP, as the west insists on calling it), is sending a big white spy balloon, able to be seen with the naked eye from earth, tracked by NORAD for days, into the skies of Montana and beyond. Where was NORAD as they watched this balloon go over the Aleutian Islands? Where was Canada?
What a hoot, that people are being distracted by a balloon. Of course, this now feeds into China China China, now that Russia Russia Russia (Ukraine, etc.) is a losing battle.
And of course, just like Bin Laden, the remains of this balloon are forever in the ocean, so that it’s impossible to do any verification. Yep!!!
“And of course, just like Bin Laden”
……. and Epstein.
It is not our government, Biden is not POTUS, he is a CCP agent.