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Not to fear, Marge is on the case!
I hope it is proved false (I think it will be) and that it is fake news by the current administration in a lame attempt to deflect attention away from their embarrassing failure to protect our airspace.
They were tracking it the whole time, did you want them shoot it down over land causing possible deaths and damage.
The way it should have been dealt with was to shoot it down in US waters on the pacific side. Before instead of after. The previous balloons, they didn’t even know about until after they had cleared out.
I wanted it shot down the moment it was detected near the Aleutians. To let it transverse the entire country is the height of idiocy and an embarrassment.
this demonstrates a total lack of creativity and strategic thought
that an foreign policy, DOD clearances, handling classified documents etc
Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure that preventing a violation of your airspace by a hostile power utilizing an aircraft carrying an unknown payload would best be accomplished BEFORE it traversed the country for days overflying population centers, sensitive military installations, etc etc. As opposed to after, on the way out the door? Perhaps low in creativity, but rather high in basic common sense?
I have my doubts about whether we knew about the balloon until it hit say maybe Canada? Kind of like the previous 4 that we failed to detect until they were on their way back to China? Tough to have any kind of creativity or strategic reaction to an incursion if you don't detect it until after it's over. So you really can't fault Trump or Biden for their reactions to these incursions if the military can't even get it together to tell them about it until after the incursion is over.
It is interesting that they now know that the balloon had propulsion and a steering system. We'll probably never know all the details. Aeronautics aside, lol.
.....but Blinken had a meeting scheduled and the Biden family got a sh!t load of millions from China over the years.Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure that preventing a violation of your airspace by a hostile power utilizing an aircraft carrying an unknown payload would best be accomplished BEFORE it traversed the country for days overflying population centers, sensitive military installations, etc etc. As opposed to after, on the way out the door? Perhaps low in creativity, but rather high in basic common sense?
I have my doubts about whether we knew about the balloon until it hit say maybe Canada? Kind of like the previous 4 that we failed to detect until they were on their way back to China? Tough to have any kind of creativity or strategic reaction to an incursion if you don't detect it until after it's over. So you really can't fault Trump or Biden for their reactions to these incursions if the military can't even get it together to tell them about it until after the incursion is over.
It is interesting that they now know that the balloon had propulsion and a steering system. We'll probably never know all the details. Aeronautics aside, lol.
Here's one of several ways the US can keep close tabs on things while effectively "jamming" any electronic activities from whomever they are watching.
