Canada’s politically and culturally correct Defense Minister Anita Anand held a press conference in Ottawa after a US warplane shot down an unidentified object flying over northern Canada on the orders of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
While reminding Canadians of the vital importance of working to protect the indigenous people of North America, and reminding the nation that all measures will be taken to ensure their safety as the recovery efforts continue, Defense Minister Anand emphasized the importance of the moment stating (06:55), “we detected this object together” with NORAD, and “we defeated this object together.”
A rather odd choice of carefully selected words, inferring “the object” was fighting back. WATCH:
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Trying to sound all tough when you’re a wimp is really, really hard… weird!
Mutton dressed as lamb.
So they shot down a cylindrical object? One of Lloyd Austin’s cigars?
Gotta protect the citizenry of Ukraine AND of Canada, just not the citizens of the US.
Since when does the the Canadian Government order US Military aircraft into potentially hostile action? Why isn’t the Canadian Airforce doing the job? What if one of our aircraft had been shot down following Trudeaus order?
This all stinks
They use the NORD thing as a cover.
Ok, I guess I just don’t like the idea that Trudeau can put a US aircraft and crew in harm’s way.
I abhor the sniveling sh#t
Cosmicbluehippo, you and a gazillion of Canadians AND Americans.
Canada doesn’t own F-22s, the best plane for these missions. Also:
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
The North Warning System is a joint United States and Canadian early-warning radar system for the atmospheric air defense of North America. It provides surveillance of airspace from potential incursions or attacks from across North America’s polar region. It replaced the Distant Early Warning Line system in the late 1980s.
Asking for a friend if this system is antiquated. Especially with hypersonic delivery systems. Not to mention being overrun by ballon’s.
Definitely NOT antiquated. It replaced the old, Cold War v1.o DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line which WAS antiquated.
The main reason it was missing balloons before is because software filters ignore slow moving objects like balloons to reduce useless clutter. The system is normally looking for aircraft and missiles.
According to info here:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-22-downs-another-unidentified-object-over-canada
they have now adjusted those filters to find slow moving objects like balloons.
As for hypersonics, they do present major interception problems because they can maneuver at very high speed, but not detection problems. Also:
Don’t Believe the Hype About Hypersonic Missiles Hypersonic tech represents merely evolutionary change that isn’t worth the price
05 FEB 2021
https://spectrum.ieee.org/hypersonic-missiles-are-being-hyped
Hypersonic weapons are one of the hottest trends in military hardware. These missiles, which fly through the atmosphere at more than five times the speed of sound, are commonly depicted as a revolutionary new tool of war: ostensibly faster, less detectable, and harder to intercept than currently-deployed long-range ballistic missiles. The major military powers—China, Russia, and the United States—have bought into this belief, with each investing vast sums in a hypersonic arms race.
But there is a glaring problem with this narrative: Many claims regarding the purported advantages of hypersonic weapons are false. These missiles are, in reality, an old technology with a massive price tag and few meaningful advantages over existing ballistic missiles.
So the best modern war machine to shoot down a baloon is an F22?
You only need a F 15 to go after Joey Biden.
Maybe….another baloon!
AIM-9 sidewinder missile runs about $400,000-$600,000. Raytheon, and its executive pretending to be SecDef are very happy to sell more of these.
That system doesn’t exist anymore though. It was replaced by satellite sentry systems in space. Some of the buildings still exist for it but so do they on the Maginot line in France too.
Did the NWS “miss” the Chinese Spy balloon, too?
Not needed anymore. Just walk across the southern border, use cash to infiltrate every aspect of the society.
Given the illegitimacy of this government and its policies, why would any military person follow their orders? Their duty, their oath, makes clear who the enemy of the Constitution is.
Great…another idiot female enters the public stage.
She has the Kamala Harris patented method of speaking like she’s talking to children. She literally sounds like she’s reading a Little Golden Book to kindergartners replete with proud little smirks. LOL
Wow, Treeper Longshoreman you nailed it.
I wasn’t going to watch this twit, but after your comment I had to. She is definitely a Kamala protege.
Why do people talk this way?
She’s one tough hombree.
That was a great lesson in handling a hostile media too. Grueling!
Is this the government propagating fear by created crisis or a fairy tale brought to you by the ministry of government.
Oh…its definitely something ‘they’ are propagating! I take it like this…what are they trying to get us to think and believe? They never tell the truth…so what’s behind it?
Looking forward to their next con, which may be that we are being visited by aliens. Gotta seize that IRA citizen, sorry, but Zork commands it.
America engaged something over canada that everyone is lying about. And that ditz is supposed to be the canadian defense minister. canada is screwed. Why the hell can’t they ever tell the damn truth about anything?
Both she, trudy and joey keep their own personal bible, “The Idiot’s Guide to Life” close by their side at all times.
Canada is getting ready to invade Haiti. https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latest-news/canada-military-plane-returns-after-haiti-surveillance/
And Haiti just might kick their ass.
Well…Im not rooting for tyranny!
More likely rescue Haiti from itself.
She’s a moron. But, it is obvious, that Canada has be-clowned its own military and its nation by letting another nation, i.e., the U.S., shoot down an enemy spy device in Canadian airspace. If you can’t defend your own airspace as a sovereign nation, you are pretty useless.
Biden and the installed Obama woksters say “Hold my Beer”. 🙈🐵🙉
more like hold my mocha jamocha karaoke latte,
Canada is not far behind Australia or New Zealand, who have both gone off the edge and are captured! Remember…we are in a war!
She’s obviously an idiot. When has Canada ever defeated anything? So this was her chance to talk tough.
Where was Justin. He loves to be in the spotlight! Probably “out of action” and thus in hiding somewhere “high” up.
NORAD does permit this close cooperation,
however it should not be for the purpose of theatrical performances. The foreign affairs minister is as credible as Turdeau and the fearless Biden. What a twosome! They meet soon and they needed some incident to explain why the two nations need closer relations going forward in such a dangerous, unpredictable world. Anand is as convincing as the fools who run the shambolic State Department in the US.
Destroying an “object” without knowing what it is seems a little odd.
People have been doing that since the dawn of man.
And yet our satellites can track people on the ground so we can send missiles to blow them up. But with all our tech, we can’t identify a flying object before we blast it out of the sky? As everyone here has already noted, something really STINKS about all this.
Yes it does. The first one had English printing on it. Did we make it and shoot it down? Did we make the last two also? Just to divert every ones attention from the Biden Docs and his families dirty business dealings? I say yes! I don’t put nothing past these Nazi’s.
The drone texted to the missile-wielding F-22 pilot, “I object!” The pilot thought drone was giving its desired pronoun as ‘object’ so henceforth it must be referred to as ‘object’! See?
hah hah Canaduh is so unprepared to defend itself it had to call Joe Biden to take care of it. This lady looks like a Chrystia Freeland and Turdeau hire for defense. I can’t quit giggling.
So Canada was apparently at war with the “Object” then?…What, no need for a prior declaration of war?…But alas, they apparently over-came it together…Mission accomplished!
A diplomatic protest has been filed with Objectistan
What changed? When the so called China balloon was making its wah across America, our people said that it posed no threat which is why they decided to wait till it crossed America before taking such decisive action to shoot it down. So this new thing was hostile? Oh…posed a danger to commercial flight. So now the people on the ground are secondary and possible necessary casualties! Hmmmm! I keep seeing that CAT!
look up lockheed HAA and HALE.
unlike us, the CCP builds more than one.
Something got what?
p.s.
waiting for that nordstream pipeline report. You know, the one where someone’s reputation is protected…
What a pitiable display, when people with no creativity begin to craft a narrative.
Excellent use of the word pitiable!
How much if this has turned to fake reports to bolster political support, perhaps to raise fear against China for greater defense funding which has already been siphoned off for personal benefit.
John there are many reasons for them to do this. That’s what happens when we have an installed moron and a criminal to boot leading our country.
What the heck is wrong with her mouth? It droops on one side, kinda like Greta Susteren …
People that talk out of both sides of their mouths often have that! Pretty sure that’s the lyin’ side, it gets the most use.
Vax side effects?
Was “the object” a relic of the trucker protest?
A bouncy balloon!
All of us should go but a lot of helium balloons, and all at the same time all over the country let them fly up into the sky. Can you imagine the news coverage! Breaking news massive invasion of balloons all over the country. Biden call for an emergency meeting of the joint chiefs to evaluate a plan of response. He will announce that we are under Martial law.
Dang!!! The Canadians are being real serial here…I mean real serious…., really serious.
I guess the truckers have learned how to fly their rigs.
I don’t believe any of these new “objects” actually exist. This has all of the markings of being a “wag the dog” game to make Biden look tough. Nothing happens in, like, forever, and then all of a sudden you have 3 balloons or “objects” that you NEED to shoot down? You let one massive balloon go for an entire week, then all of a sudden you need to shoot down everything? Give me a break. I don’t buy any of it.
Look another shiny object to distract you!
As a Canadian I can say unequivocally that this is a stupid psy ops cooked up by Biden to run cover for the Chinese and their spy program. The actual balloon was allowed to drift across Canada and the States with crickets until someone spotted it. Then they had to acknowledge it and do the Randy McQuaid move to shoot it down.
All these other sightings plus her use of words are straight out of Communist playbook. I do t have words for how much I despise the traitor in Ottawa.
At this point I would prefer aliens.
Our esteemed pm was probably “higher” than that object. Otherwise, he would be out, front and centre, to show how he saved us from the “object”.
New fake ballon story to distract from the last fake balloon story which was cover for the 1st real balloon story.
The whole thing is breathtakingly pathetic. Next they’ll be trotting out “craft” from Roswell.
What‘s worse is that they think most of us are that stupid.
That’s probably very close to what’s coming! They need a distraction! A BIG distraction. War would be great for them. But it’s not happening, at least yet. What about an alien invasion? That might get the populations attention off the backs of the commies trying to take our country down! Don’t put it past them. Look up Project Blue Beam. If you can still find info on it. They may have taken it down now that they are getting close to needing a huge false flag!
“we defeated this object together.”
DEFLATED! We DEFLATED this object together.
Damn spell check!
HA!
Waiting for the inevitable picture of the USAF General kneeling with the crumpled aluminum foil telling us it is merely a weather balloon.
He implies direct help, but for absolute certain the voluntary and involuntarily provided US corporate IP to the CCP as part of doing business in China helps with everything they do.
‘Very Disturbing Possibility’ US Manufacturing Helped Build Chinese Spy Balloon, Sen. Hawley Says
FEB 11, 2023
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/very-disturbing-possibility-us-manufacturing-helped-build-chinese-spy-balloon-sen-hawley
God help us.
WEF selected politicians all suck.
Nope.
Ramping up for war with China when they invade Taiwan to distract their population from their own growing problems.
Now that our “elites” have turned them into a major adversary by shipping most of our essential manufacturing there, agreeing to comply with their tech transfer mandates to do business there, ignoring the massive IP theft, and allowing them to infiltrate our universities and buy all of our pols, it’s time to be “Shocked! Shocked I tell you!” about what a real threat they are.
Unlike “Russia, Russia, Russia!” with its GDP less than CA or TX, the CCP is creeping tyranny on capitalist steroids. But that was OK because, unlike with “Russia, Russia, Russia!” there was SO much money to be made there.
BTW, Russia has vast, VAST untapped natural resources and if they and China seriously team up, we are totally screwed. China supplies the tech they stole from us and Russia supplies the raw materials.
BRICS
Personally I think Chy na will turn on the Russians to take those resources all for themselves. Just as Germany wanted to do. Russia has been depleting their military resources fo almost a year now, and WE have done mayor depletion with ours. Chy na is positioning themselves for a major move in the not too distant future.
The bozos running the Canadian and the US are stupidly falling into a trap. Our country is littered with politicians on the left who play with the Chinese and are going as hard as they can to remove our 2cd A. Another hurdle Chy na would love. Things are not going well for us who love freedom, we have too many idiots in government who are out for their own monetary gain and couldn’t give a hoot about the country. I really think a lot of them think we’re invincable and can’t be beat. Just listen to Biden from his basement campaign. He talked like Chy na was not any threat to us. Does anybody think Chy na didn’t hear that?
God save us from the Evil of Our government. All glory be to you God amen.
Collecting real time data on U.S. air defense response for their ‘war games’ modeling the CCP/ PLA. Perhaps now the CCP ‘asset’ in the WH has been taken out of the real chain of command?
All of a sudden we now have an “object” a day to be “shot” down? Kabuki theater. Divert at all costs away from Hunter Biden and the Biden Crime Syndicate.
😂 That cat. My reaction also to the fake alien crap currently sucking up all the oxygen.
With Trudeau in charge did they really even discover the object? I wonder if the US actually discovered it and then told the Canadians about it and reminded Trudeau to get one of their jets the air.
Be terrible if one of these cylinders fell in Russia/Ukraine and it turned out to be a nuke.
Rockets bursting in air.
Has she ever held a gun?
This is what you get when liberal woke vessels of cerebrally challenged protoplasm who masquerade (until they open their mouth) as supposed normal functioning people are put into positions of power (especially political). Her comments from this news briefing sure seems to indicate that she has more reality issues going on upstairs that the usual woke liberal who’s first challenge in the morning is to decide who/what they identify as. But rest assured, since this threat was engaged and defeated, instead of just acknowledging the threat from Chinese aggression, Justin and his herd of liberal loonies will most likely put the Canadian party balloon manufacturers on alert that white balloons will not be tolerated due to their aggressive racist nature toward indigenous and people of color. Geez, the mental health services industry would become highly profitable and overbooked if liberals would get the psychological therapy that they desperately need/require or just be admitted to institutions were they could harmlessly wonder around in their own induced fantasyland. Illegitimate potus Joe would enjoy the company.
It can’t happen soon enough.
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Why is the United States Air Force shooting down objects in Canada?
Miltary ”objects”, no doubt. Whose side are we on.
Those people don’t exactly inspire confidence in anyone. They can’t even be objective about it. Wow. They defeated the threat, a balloon. This is like a running gag. I wonder how many more balloons Xi will send over? But I’m sure they want him to keep sending them over, not realizing how stupid they look to the rest of the world. But then again this is the “object” lesson for them to eventually learn for themselves. Until they can see the fools they’ve been made to everyone, the lesson should continue. Yes, should we say that is the “objective” in all of this?
I DVR’d the Dan Bongino show last night. My TV in the family room bit the dust. So when my wife and I went to bed we wanted to watch his show. The show came on and it only took about 2 minutes when thet broke into his show with a “BREAKING NEWS” update ! That the shies were now open over Montana! I was like OK we knew about that a couple of hours ago. But then rather than go back to his show they had some retired General coming on after the “break”! What’s to elaborate on? I figured they weren’t going back to Bongino so after about 10 minutes we turned the TV off and went to sleep.
Yawn. It’s the IRAQI WMD all over again, and for exactly the same reason.
There are predictable consequences for threatening the petrodollar, and the Russia-Iran-China triad has now aroused the beast. Ultimately, this is aimed at the Saudis, who are being forcefully reminded that favoring a petroyuan could yield a really, really bad outcome.
40K feet, small payload, probably was a weather balloon. Justin Sparkle Socks pound his chest after defeating a real weather balloon … It figures.