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Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy❤
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Spy balloons up in the sky.
After telling Ukraine we'll help in the war Putin started- now dragging feet on Zelensky's plane requests.
While record emergency withdrawals from 401Ks are happening as we speak.
Transitory poverty ......
One wonders what China wants with the balloons. They got a bunch of secrets in the 90s.....
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I have a hunch that scientists and engineers in the US Air Force, Navy, Marines, Space Force, NASA, Cal Tech, MIT, JPL, NOAA, etc have scanned, surveyed, and analyzed the balloon and its cargo.
These agencies consult with one another. Their knowledge and advise reach the executive branch. There's probably a plan based on US intel that is better kept classified.
If, otoh, we were actually a nation of nothing but morons with our thumbs up our wazooos, we'd already be speaking German or Chinese.
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These agencies consult with one another. Their knowledge and advise reach the executive branch. There's probably a plan based on US intel that is better kept classified.
I agree.
It would be nice though if Biden would stopped when asked questions from the media to assure the American people the situation is being monitored and care taken in as many words he can without giving out any intel instead of walking on by with a snicker on his face mumbling a snarky reply.
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LurkerMom: ...instead of walking on by with a snicker on his face mumbling a snarky reply.
He said, "we're going to take care of it." Hardly snarky.
A snarky reply is all the congressional idiots (and at least one candidate who lost her election but thinks she won) posing in photos on Twitter with their pistols and AR-15s, threatening to shoot down a balloon that's ten miles above the planet.
These are the stupidest of times.
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A U.S. military aircraft on Saturday downed the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that had been floating over the United States for several days, according to a U.S. official and eyewitness videos circulating on social media.So Biden took care of it.
Onto the next faux outrage, which probably is going to be "why did Biden risk war with China in such a reckless manner?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2...
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Based on news reports I heard yesterday, it seems like they were waiting for a good place to bring it down "softly" so they could take it to the lab to determine the extent of the technology used. If China is going to send us a balloon we should at least use our resources to analyze it. For some reason, it seems like there is a group of conservatives that don't trust our military. This was just a matter of the president delegating to experts, which may seem strange to the followers of "a very stable genius", who seemed to have his own answers to many questions. I don't give Biden any credit, or responsibility here.
Alan
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So Biden took care of it.
Onto the next faux outrage"
Ain't it the sad truth.
If it had been shot down over the Pacific: "Biden's 'unprovoked attack' on weather balloon risks starting international crisis!"
If it had been downed over the land; "Biden unnecessarily risks lives of hardworking patriot families."
Over the Atlantic; "WHAT TOOK HIM SO LONG; DERELICTION OF DUTY!!"
