Not A Commander-in-Chief
Joe Biden proved himself unqualified to serve as Commander-in-Chief. I knew and accepted as an Army officer that as a result of my decisions others could be placed in harm’s way. Living with that is part of the price of entry to military leadership. A hostile foreign power sent an intelligence collection balloon over the US and Canada, initially and for several days thereafter over frozen tundra where shooting down the balloon might imperil an elk or walrus, but little else.
When it crossed again into the US the debris could have landed on a buffalo, or perhaps a road sign, in Montana. There’s a reason that the state is called “Big Sky Country.” Letting the intruder collect information over and around our missile silos is at best industrial-strength stupidity. Waiting until it was over territorial water was a gamble. Knowing that all the intelligence needed had been collected and doubtless reported to China before ordering the balloon’s change of altitude is pure weakness. Now, had it flown just about 530 miles further north, letting it go would have made sense. There’s absolutely zero intelligence there.
Humiliating and Emasculating
I can only assume at this point that the objective of the flight was to humiliate and emasculate Joe Biden. That is worrisome. Brazenly showing who is in charge of the US has to mean that the games are over. If there will be no more hiding who’s calling the shots. The U.S. is now a colony of China.
What defines most colonial arrangements? They primarily benefit the colonial power. The colony produces raw materials which it exports to the colonizer and in return buys manufactured goods from its master. That’s pretty much a definition of our current relationship.
Does anyone else find it a bit peculiar that the government confirmed that a second balloon was on a more southern orbit across northern South America and there has not been one word about its continued flight?? Is a Chinese Balloon entering sovereign space of no concern if not over the US??more stupidity.
https://youtu.be/14_0r6TZc5Q gonzalo lira on the babboon, i mean the balloon....