Posted on 02/07/2023 10:32:36 AM PST by conservative98
A slightly different story emerged in the Washington Post, which reported that the Pentagon knew of "past Chinese surveillance balloons near Florida and Texas." Wait a minute: Near Florida and Texas? What does near mean? Were the balloons over those states? Were they offshore but over U.S. territorial waters? The Washington Post suggested the Pentagon was not being entirely clear. "The Defense Department was not specific about where in each state the previous incursions occurred," the paper reported, citing Rep. Michael Waltz, a Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. "[Waltz] added that officials did not say whether the balloons made it into U.S. airspace, which extends 12 nautical miles from the shore, or over U.S. territory, too." That's an important distinction, isn't it? Were the previously undiscovered balloons over U.S. territory or not?
At this point, nothing is clear. In a text exchange, one Capitol Hill Republican, eager to question the administration on events, saw three possible explanations. One, the Defense Department is "conflating wildly different incidents, that is, balloons around Hawaii or Key West vs. crossing middle America," a conflation he called "partisan spin."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Is someone inflating this story or is it a buncha’ hot air?
“Near????????????????????????”
Tucker: This is pure absurdity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSwV7li-duQ
Text didn’t copy correctly....It should say NEAR.
A slightly different story emerged in the Washington Post, which reported that the Pentagon knew of “past Chinese surveillance balloons “NEAR” Florida and Texas.” Wait a minute: Near Florida and Texas? What does near mean?
Is someone inflating this story or is it a buncha’ hot air?
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This story is going over like a lead balloon
They didn’t tell PDJT because they were afraid he might order them to do something about it.
This CCP balloon was huge with a payload the size of a bus. My theory is that previous CCP “weather” balloons were much smaller. So were dismissed. All these balloons were probing our defenses and responses. The most recent one was taking photos/spying and transmitting back to China.
Now just wait a minute! We’re the Biden Administration, and when we get caught doing something bone-headed, it is our job to spin it to look like the Trump Administration was much worse, and it is YOUR DUTY to report it as we tell it, without asking embarrassing questions!
Are we clear?
The forehead slapping obvious part is - who the ding dong hell is going spy from an untethered balloon with zero control over its route?! China has almost 50 satellites in orbit, every one of them capable of spying. Has anyone noticed that neither the US or any other country uses spy BALLOONS? Gee, I wonder why? With agriculture crucial to China feeding a billion and a half souls, maybe keeping track of subtle high altitude humidity, ion content and static charge on air particles could be considered a rational means of predicting crop destroying weather events, particularly in mid winter.
People gotta stop thinking in 3 color, 3 finger cartoons.
The real question here is “How credible is Jeff Bezos’ nasty little blog?”
Imho, the bigger problem is the military/intelligence community appears to have a problem with the civilian authority, and that needs to get nipped in the bud.
dont worry
they will have a new lie tomorrow
cuz this one aint workin
Nothing new.
But I believe this one was maneuverable. And couldn't they contract with American and other weather-monitoring companies to acquire this information? If we'd halt their purchase of US farmland, especially near military stations, they wouldn't need to be so acre-specific ...
Actually, we and the IAEA reportedly use balloons to spy... collect air samples to test for radioactive isotopes blowing from, say, Iranian sites.
Actually, we and the IAEA reportedly use balloons to spy... collect air samples to test for radioactive isotopes blowing from, say, Iranian sites.
We no doubt have many of our own spy satellites hovering high over China, so perhaps our military leaders are concerned that us taking down their spy balloon means that they can now justify taking down our satellites.
From the article: “On Sunday, administration sources began to tell reporters that, yes, the Chinese incursions had happened during the Trump years but that nobody knew about them. And not just nobody in the sense of the public. Nobody in the government’s vast military intelligence and surveillance apparatus noticed them, either. They all missed the giant Chinese balloons.”
If they weren’t detected then, how do we know they existed?
Mr. Obvious needs remedial math...start with the fact that radio signals, i.e. all the interesting stuff, diminish with the square of the distance.
They use balloons because they can see and hear much more and because they can hover and stare. Same reason Peeping Toms get right up close rather than watching thru a telephoto lens.
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