Dear God why must everything be about politics in this world. This "we must find fault with the other side" mindset is poisoning this Country day by day.
Thank God for Joe Biden and the Democrats.
Comrade Trumpsky probably launched it from his hotel for his buddy Putin.
And the whole government looks unprepared, incompetent and by extension weak for not knowing what to do about it. And as President and Commander and Chief, Biden is ultimately responsible.
She spoke in German just to piss of the Israelis who submarined Omar.
Link: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=99+luftballons+youtube+video&view=detail&mid=8B383BB6A45B3A5E04258B383BB6A45B3A5E0425&FORM=VIRE
the world.
Not with the US Secretary of State about to make an official visit.
You see everything through the lens of party politics...which is one of the reasons why you understand so little.
maybe Joe will cancel more of our mining projects that compete with them before the next meeting. Maybe BidenHandlers will do another equivalent of removing the ban on help to complete the Nordstream Pipeline again - this time for the Chinese.
If Beau hadn't died in Iraq he would corn-pop the bastards by himself.
Fear of damage on the ground if it is done?
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The balloon is at a very high altitude. If you shoot it, it could easily land in a populated area.
I would think that hitting the actual spy apparatus and blowing that into small debris would be the way to go.
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There is no heat signature to a balloon - and it is at 60K+ feet.
But they have satellites that go over the US all the time. This is much ado about nothing.
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Google the D-21 project if you don't believe it.
Link: https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/defence/uas/uas-solutions/zephyr
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The D-21 was designed to carry a single high-resolution photographic camera over a preprogrammed path, then release the camera module into the air for retrieval, after which the drone would self-destruct.[1] Following a fatal accident when launched from an M-21, the D-21 was modified to be launched from a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. Several test flights were made, followed by FOUR UNSUCCESSFUL OPERATIONAL FLIGHTS OVER THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, before the program was canceled in 1971. (emphasis mine)
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As Chris mentioned, there was never a weapons system involved with D-21...is there a timeline for your return from Fantasyland?
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_D-21
But it too had no weapon system.
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Particularly from space. I’m looking forward to that.
And I don’t think it’s impossible...it’s just not easy.
I am no airpospace defense specialist, nor are you. I leave the "how" to them, but we clearly have capabilities well beyond this. I will not pretend to know stuff like Ty, but if you want to fie on the hill of "we can't hit a giant balloon in the upper atmosphere", then good luck with that.
Further, if we couldn't do anything about it, then why was it only after the thing is in the middle of our airspace and news gets out that Blinken finally cancels his visit to China? They would have been demanding this to stop days ago, and the visit would not have been going forward long before now when China didn't comply.
No, they didn't know...the inept Biden admin and its diversity focused military appears to have caught with its pants all of the way down.
They could've launched a full attack of Taiwan while everyone was wetting the bed over a balloon today.
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Once over Florida and several times over Hawaii and Guam. We should have a plan for this.
should have captured the balloon to study it and deny knowing anything about it. I remember one of our military surveillance planes in the early to mid 2000's was either escorted down by China fighter jets or the plane had to land in China due to mechanical issues......can't remember which is was. We tried to wipe clean the computer systems and destroy the surveillance technology before the Chines military entered the plane but China combed through that plane for a few days/weeks before giving it back. At some point, you have to punch the bully in the nose or they will continue to do more and more things if there isn't any ramifications to their actions.
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A dumb one. But to be expected.
Been laughing since inauguration day, only to go into a full roar with the fiasco in Afghanistan.They wouldn't do half the things they do if DJT was aro
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minerals needed for our electric cars, and we'll become completely dependent on you from now on for them".
Weak. Appeaser.
Boom.
Link: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/biden-slaps-20-year-mining-ban-on-minnesota-land-give-more-power-china
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