Posted on 02/02/2023 5:49:33 PM PST by rod5591
A massive spy balloon believed to be from China was seen above Montana on Thursday and is being tracked as it flies across the continental United States, with President Joe Biden ultimately deciding against "military options" because of the risk to civilians, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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Deflate it.
We have deteriorated a lot since 1960
How many miles is it between civilians in those parts? There’s very little risk to anyone if we shoot it down, and a certainty of looking impotent if we don’t.
It should’ve been shot down, this demonstrates weakness, especially with the lame excuses why they didn’t shoot in down.
Uh oh. Could be Swalwell is doing the bang bang with Fang Fang.
And she get to float a spy balloon as part of the deal.
We can’t the neocons and warmongers sent all of our weapons to Zelensky and the Ukraine…
May be headed SE.
Apparently Milley and Co. didn’t want to shoot it down.
A perfect weapon.
As you can see, we are afraid of offending them if we shoot it down.
The Chinese can do this. And we will pretend not to care.
I saw last week we’re still trying to get the Pueblo back from North Korea.
Just imagine a Chinese spy balloon flying over the United States under the Trump administration………it appears our southern border is open, the northern border is being challenged, the southeast coast is open and NOW our sovereign airspace. What in the hell is going on?
It’s apparently at 40,000+ feet high.
How do they know it’s not carrying a load of Fentanyl to drop over a town or city?
Biden is China’s bitch. They can do whatever they want now.
But no more mean tweets.
Exactly. Or another bioweapon.
And it was allowed into our airspace through Canada.
Where is NORAD???????
The story smells like carp.
We don’t have to blow it up. We can just send a dart.
Surely China has spy satellites and aircraft that would be far harder to shoot down than some balloon. They sent a balloon to prove a point: America can’t, or won’t, defend itself.
Believed to be? Interesting time for “spy” balloons to be showing up.
“ the neocons and warmongers sent all of our weapons to Zelensky and the Ukraine…”
LOL. I think we may have a few more weapons besides some tanks.
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