Posted on 02/04/2023 12:57:19 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
During an interview on Newsmax TV on Friday, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) stated that the Chinese spy balloon incident needs to be “a Sputnik moment” for the United States.
Waltz stated, “I think a potential silver lining from this spy balloon incident is I’m hoping it’s a Sputnik moment for American society and the government in Washington, D.C. that we need — we absolutely need a wake-up call. This is the most massive spying operation that any adversary has undertaken against the United States and influence operation in American history. We are under assault from Chinese spying. It’s in our research labs. It’s in our universities. It’s — they’re influencing and buying up sports, Wall Street, academia, pouring billions into college endowment funds — the University of Pennsylvania Biden Center being just one of them. And now, as we do our own investigation — and we’re asking the Pentagon to do theirs — we’re seeing that Chinese-backed private equity [is] buying up military schools and private schools and boarding schools all over the United States. One, it gives them a platform to influence our kids on top of what they’re already doing with TikTok. And then number two, they can send their elites to these schools. So, we’ve just got to have a wake-up call across the board. And again, the sad thing is, we’re paying for it. This is our money that is fueling their military build-up and their spying operation.”
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Xiao Bing Deng? They own him.
I’m hoping it’s a Sputnik moment...
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Maybe for a moment, but it will quickly sputter out. Our national span of attention is fleeting.
I really don’t think “wait the Chinese are still using balloons?!” is gonna inspire much of anybody.
All Sputnik got us was a flood of H-1Bs to compensate for deficiencies in American public education.
“Our Germans are better than their Germans.”
It’s a balloon with low tech sensors hung off of it.
Literally, very old tech.
Is this guy an idiot or 10 years old.
Was he in a coma during the Clinton Administration and just wake up.
The Chinese have been spying on us at every possible level for decades. Maybe since Nixon opened up relations.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECRWT9TEaj0
For Democrat voters? Highly doubtful.
So where was the debris trail? I watched the balloon as it was shot down. The balloon popped and the payload went straight down. The same thing could have been done in MT and the recovery would have been easier.
We have to have the stupidest political leaders on the planet.
Biden shot it over the water so there COULD NOT be any data or equipment or camera or radio/telemetry recovery.
Why not? They know exactly the location where it fell. I watched the shoot down.
As in Dr.Strangelove: We cannot allow us to have a balloon gap.
Actually, this is more like the Francis Gary Powers shot down American U-2 spy plane and the Soviets. But Chinese style.
If you look closely at the video, you can see the payload free fall. In about 7 or 8seconds you can see a series of small flashes trailing the payload. I believe these may have been explosives detonating in or on the sensor packages, destroying them. They could have been triggered remotely or by an altimeter which triggered self destruct mechanisms once a certain descent velocity was attained.
Biden wants to be reelected and needs a summit with Xi (between now and then) to bolster his chances of winning. Xi knows that full well. His timing was good and he’s put Biden on the defensive big time. Make no mistake, this was ‘Mission Accomplished’ for the Chinese.
“ It’s a balloon with low tech sensors hung off of it.”
One rumor is that it allowed Chicom spies to transmit info using low-power, and unmonitored, radio.
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