Posted on 02/15/2023 8:38:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It's been days since President Joe Biden directed the Pentagon to shootdown a number of "objects" he claims were a threat to U.S. airspace and commercial aircraft. There are no photos of the "objects," which White House officials say cannot be classified as balloons, and still no recovered debris after they were reportedly taken out by F-16 pilots using $400,000 missiles.
As officials drag their feet on providing details about what exactly the objects were, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre won't say whether Biden scrambled fighter jets to shoot down benign and routine weather balloons.
REPORTER: "If it turns out...that the president and Mr. Trudeau sent top gun fighters to blow weather balloons out of the sky, does the president regret that? And is he embarrassed by that?"
KJP: "We just don't know yet." pic.twitter.com/02rljbp6fQ— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 14, 2023
During remarks to reporters Monday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin gave a preview of how additional "objects" could be handled.
"We will evaluate each and every event on its own merits, and we'll make decisions based upon the recommendations of the NORTHCOM NORAD commander, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and they'll make recommendations to me, and I'll evaluate and make recommendations to the President," Austin said. "Again, these three events, each of them presented a risk to safety of flight. We don't know if they were actually collecting intelligence, but because of the route that they took, out of an abundance of caution, we want to make sure we have the ability to examine what these things are and potentially what they were doing."
This is what's really going on here: The Biden administration royally screwed up by allowing the Chinese spy balloon into the U.S. after watching it approach. Americans noticed right before Blinken's trip to China and then government allowed it to traverse the whole country with surveillance equipment. Now, after creating a lack of deterrence nightmare, they're in damage control mode -- shooting down 'objects' while refusing to identify what they are.
The Biden administration royally screwed up by allowing the Chinese spy balloon into the U.S. after watching it approach, Americans noticed right before Blinken's trip to China and then government allowed it to traverse the whole country with surveillance equipment. Now, after… https://t.co/OXULthRQSG— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) February 13, 2023
All for show after they allowed an actual threat, the Chinese spy balloon, to float across the entire country. https://t.co/8luVzIvdD7— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) February 14, 2023
Why, yes. That is true.
About the cost of the missiles, that is.
Why not? They used $1MM cruise missiles to make rubble bounce in Afghanistan.
$400K a pop?
It’s just your hard-earned tax dollars at work protecting you from outer space aliens....nothing to see here.
But hey, it’s better than giving it to the Ukraine to be laundered back to the pedoPIG and his vile spawn....LOL
How dare Biden waste one of Ukraine’s Missiles! Doesn’t he know all US Weapons are earmarked for Zelensky? That same rocket could have brought down a Ruzzian jet? It could have saved a hospital full of children! (The preferred target of Ork air force).
As Steve Bannon often says “Stolen elections have catastrophic consequences”.
F16 pilot at close range: “That’s not a balloon”.
Fighter pilots are known to have good eyesight!
The Canadians put lots of holes in a balloon some years ago and failed to crash it where they wanted to. Also, the instrument package on this balloon was worth many times the cost of the missile. This article is misleading and misinformed.
SOP for Democrats....the collective memory forgets what Clinton did to keep Monica Lewinsky off the news cycles and how Clinton squandered millions in Cruise missiles to attack a empty pharmaceutical production facility and a tent city.
Trust me, there is video of all the objects before, during, and after they were engaged.
So we’ve spent around two million dollars, for five four hundred thousand dollar missiles, to shoot down four balloons (one required two missiles, from, reportedly four F18s or F22 (they don’t seem to be able to discern the difference), which probably had escorts.
Prolly could have sent a Montana rancher in biplane with .300 mag. Just sayin . . .
Anybody who’s not a far left sycophant or a mindless drone knows this is exactly what is happening.
What exactly in the article is misleading and misinformed? I think you’re confusing the Chinese balloon with the other three whatevers. We haven’t recovered an instrument package from the other shootdowns
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“Did Biden use a $400,000 missile to shoot down a balloon”?
This is a military question, not a Biden question.
Biden can’t eat his own oatmeal, he has zero idea what military weapon to use.
The rocket motors are inert. That is why they are painted blue. Interestingly, the seeker may be live, depends on purpose of the training.
Still, it would never leave the rail.
MCSETots wrote: “Prolly could have sent a Montana rancher in biplane with .300 mag. Just sayin . . .”
It was proven in WW1 that shooting holes in baloons doesn’t work.
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