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Yeahman, I’ll bet the Russian Balloon Corps
are quaking in their boots right about now
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• Story (vid of shoot-down)
I kind’a expected something different:
🚨#BREAKING: Incredible HD footage of the Chinese surveillance balloon being shot down
🚨#MyrtleBeach l #SC
Watch incredible HD video of the moment when the Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down by a single missile from an F-22 fighter jet from Langley Air Force Base pic.twitter.com/KjwTrgcvcb
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 4, 2023
You tube vid from BBC showed the downing. They then showed FJB coming down AF1 with the over-dub, “The satisfying moment for president Biden” – – – BULL! That should have never reached our shores; he had to be forced into shooting it down. Trump would have shot that down before it reached the Aleutian Islands.
If I were King of the World (I’m available, BTW, for a nominal fee,) I would have shot it down anywhere I damn well pleased over the Pacific, remembering the partial success the Japanese had with similar balloons in the ’40s. I would have boxed up whatever debris we could recover and after we reviewed the pieces for whatever information we could gather, I’d have sent it back to the Chinese, along with a bill for whatever it cost us to make trash out of their technology.
Gropin’ Joe says he wanted to shoot it down last Wednesday, but he was “overruled.”
By whom?
His candy-ass generals at the Pentagon? Acting President-Behind-the-Curtain Jill (I’m a DOCTOR, dammit!) Biden? He’s the effing PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, fer cryin’ out loud!
This is just one more royal screw-up in a continuing parade of screw-ups with the Biden logo all over it.
It would’ve been shot down Wednesday but thoroughly modern Milley couldn’t get through to inform his chinese overlord.
Donald Trump Jr. owns the Left:
https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1621518136045617160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1621518136045617160%7Ctwgr%5E67f98def161f862a9cd83c492c62f4859419c2f6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.republicworld.com%2Fworld-news%2Fus-news%2Ftrump-jr-goes-on-twitter-spree-to-mock-biden-and-congressman-swalwell-over-chinese-balloon-articleshow.html
The modern equivalent of pillory or tar&feathers
They were aware of it on the 28th & said nothing until questions started with sightings over Montana. Then the outrage reached a fever pitch & on Wednesday Bite me reacts & orders it shot down. Milly overrules him because reasons. They caved over ridicule, just like with gas stoves. This place is run by a committee of commies (I no longer capitalize commie, leftists, or democrats) led by Chicago Jesus
I wonder what it was doing.
Spy sats and the Clintons/Obamas/Biden Brain Trusts already give Chinese spies all they want.
Checking air currents for future ops? Dropping some more kung flu? Dropping whatever the vaccine weakens our immune system for?
All of that? Something else?
Yeah, there’s a long list of ugly-to-catastrphic ‘could be’s in addition to yours.
Analogy: satellite overflight for reconnaissance/surveillance has been acceptable since the early Cold War (spent my AF career doin’ that), but bolting a nuke onto a satellite has always been a big no-no
Ah you do know the biplane is a WW1 German Albatross, right?
Yep, and a French balloon