The Chinese high-altitude balloon said to be about the size of three buses being allowed to hover over the United States for almost a week before it was shot down is another example of how matters have deteriorated under Joe Biden.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1621557627200196610
There
are some possibilities regarding the function of balloon
Experts say that balloons
of this kind could be fitted with advanced technology spy cameras and
radar sensors. The balloon could have been taking pictures or videos and transmitting them back to China.
One a week is sufficient time to dispatch copious information.
Another
possibility is that the balloon was laden with explosives and was meant to detonate
following an external trigger. Thus for one week, Biden
allowed this peril to literally hover over American soil and people.
An
explosion was reported over Billings, Montana but authorities
denied it.
https://twitter.com/MMtTreasures/status/1621661908205195265
Another
possibility is that toxic substances were sprayed which
may cause long or short-term harm to human life or crops or property. The damage could be extensive during the week it flew. We may know of the impact in the
future.
Beyond its functionality, there were other issues.
A easily visible surveillance balloon is a symbolic act of domination by the Chicoms. The balloon was also meant to demonstrate sophisticated Chinese technological capability to penetrate US airspace. It is also an ominous sight for citizens.
In
all scenarios, Biden’s dithering over the course of action has already done
the damage and may have brought the US very close to a serious catastrophe.
It
also made the US look weak and incompetent.
Yet some
sections of the US media are still defending Biden.
https://twitter.com/bpolitics/status/1622229319912136707
But there was more to come.
Whenever a catastrophe strikes the Biden administration, their response isn’t to
admit the mistake and initiate remedial measures.
Instead, their focus is on managing the narrative by peddling falsehoods. They have the US news media, which is the equivalent
of the propaganda arm for the Democrats, to amplify their hoaxes
The
narrative that they concocted this time was that "Three Chinese Balloons Flew Over the US During Trump's Presidency”.
This false equivalent was meant to suggest that while Trump did nothing Biden at least shot it down in a week.
Let’s explore this possibility
If a
balloon even the size of a Volkswagen Beetle appeared during the
Trump administration, the anti-Trump US media, the Democrats, the Trump-hating
Republicans, and various agencies would
have claimed it was the work of President Putin and evidence that Trump
was compromised by the Kremlin.
Knowing
Trump, he would have relished the situation. He would have ordered the immediate
shooting down of the balloon the moment it reached an unpopulated
area. Trump would have rightly made a spectacle out of it. When the
invasion is so blatant it deserves a spectacle when it is thwarted to send a
message to every adversary.
Also, if the claim was true, someone somewhere in the US would have
spotted the balloon and uploaded the video of it on social media.
But
none of the above occurred.
President
Trump denied knowledge there were any Chinese spy balloons over the United States when he
was president.
https://truthsocial.com/users/realDonaldTrump/statuses/109812699029727017
All
three national security advisers under Trump — John Bolton, H.R. McMaster, and
Robert O’Brien — denied knowledge
of balloon incursions, so did former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former
Director of National Intelligence (DNI), John Ratcliffe, and former acting
Director of (DNI) Richard Grenell.
It
proved that the claim was a blatant lie.
But that didn't stop the media from repeating and amplifying it.
The narrative was updated yesterday
White
House national security adviser Jake
Sullivan claimed improvements ordered by Joe Biden to strengthen
defenses against Chinese
espionage helped to identify last week’s spy balloon and to determine
that similar balloons operated at multiple
points during the Trump administration.
We
are being told that Biden who can’t remember where he is or the names of his
colleagues or his way on the White House lawn, ordered agencies to enhance surveillance
and protection of US airspace. Yet the same Biden took a week to shoot the recent
balloon down.
It doesn’t
seem convincing.
Next was
Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command
(NORAD) and Northern Command (NORTHCOM).
VanHerck
revealed that NORAD did detect the most recent balloon as it
approached Alaska.
VanHerck
however added that the balloon "did not present a physical threat," in
his assessment, adding "I could not take immediate action because it was
not demonstrating hostile act or hostile intent."
But he
also stated how there was "even the potential for explosives to detonate
and destroy the balloon that--that could have been present."
When
challenged about the explosives claim VanHerck responded with “I can't confirm
whether it had explosives or not. Anytime you down something like this, we make
an assumption that that potential exists”
All
of this seems rather baffling.
VanHerck
claimed that NORAD missed incursions of Chinese spy balloons, including during
the Trump administration.
His exact
words were
“I
will tell you that we did not detect those threats. And that's a domain
awareness gap that we have to figure out.”
“The
intel community, after the fact, I believe has been briefed already, assess
those threats to additional means of collection from additional means and made
us aware of those balloons that were previously approaching North America or
transited North America.”
So
was there a major technological upgrade in the interim that enabled the detection
now but did not previously?
We do
not know.
There
are two possible inferences that can be drawn from VanHerck’s statements.
The
General is perhaps unknowingly participating in the White House disinformation campaign.
He didn’t say when he learned of the balloons during
the Trump administration. Perhaps he was briefed by agencies at the behest of
the White House after the recent balloon made news and accepted it as fact without asking questions.
The
other possibility is also troubling.
If
the General did indeed receive intelligence about the balloons during
the tenure of the Trump administration it is shocking that neither
President Trump nor any of the top officials in the Trump administration were briefed
about the incursion of US air space. This means key information was withheld.
This
once again reveals the mindset of intelligence officials. They seem to place
themselves above democratically elected officials. They willingly peddle hoaxes
to build narratives to hurt whom they perceive as opponents such as Trump and
aid whom they see as allies such as Biden.
There
is a grave need for reform in these compromised agencies.
Perhaps
it begins with an investigation by House Republicans.
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