Another Biden Administration Blunder

We just learned our military successfully shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina. Pentagon Officials provided the scripted statement they wanted to protect civilians on the ground from falling debris, so they waited until it was over ocean waters. The Biden administration failed again with the Chinese balloon debacle.

Now most Americans that tune into CNN for their news will accept what the government issues and go on with their lives and forget it. Those of you reading this already know what they issued was BS. Our military, CIA and NSA are watching every movement happening in China. China is also watching our movements through surveillance satellites.

It is inconceivable that at launch in China or soon thereafter one of our agencies or an ally’s spy agencies didn’t alarm our government of the surveillance balloon taking flight.

Japan is a key ally of the United States and host to numerous US military bases. Any object picked up on radar nearing Japanese airspace would have initiated a military response of verification and shoot down if necessary. Japan is already under high tension from North Korea and the China / Taiwan issue, they would have tracked the balloon coming.

Biden Afraid to Provoke China

Why was the flight allowed to enter Japanese airspace without being intercepted? The flight then continued over the Pacific Ocean crossing the Aleutian Islands and over the Bering Sea until flying over mainland Alaska. Now the balloon has crossed into US airspace which NORAD is diligently monitoring. Once again, why wasn’t it shot down, especially since most of that time it was over uninhabited land and water?

By now, the Director of National Intelligence must have briefed the President in one of his daily briefings on the incursion by the Chinese, yet they were allowed to continue.

The first job of the government is to protect its citizens. By now the military would have had high-resolution pictures of the balloon exterior and known the number of solar panels hanging below was powering heavy electronic equipment on board. They would not have known if the payload contained biological warfare or nuclear warfare material. Maybe the balloon had no mass destruction capabilities, but what about crashing it into our electric grid taking out a section of the country?

Controlling Their Balloon

Balloons aren’t steered like a car or a plane, they release weight or gas that is allowing them to change altitude. Different altitudes have different wind directions allowing the balloon some maneuverability to change course, with GPS tracking and satellite communications the Chinese had the ability to alter direction.

The Canadians then allowed the balloon to cross their country, probably after conferring with DC. Joe Biden and the Pentagon allowed the balloon to spend days transiting our entire nation before shooting it down over the Atlantic. The threat of harm to the citizens had already passed by then.

Any surveillance intelligence the Chinese obtained had already been uplinked to their satellites. Why did our government wait until after the balloon was over the Atlantic? The equipment it was carrying would be easier to recover and salvage over land than water. Sea water destroys electronic equipment right away, why chance the loss in the ocean?

Were They Testing Us?

Was the balloon merely a test by the Chinese to see how America and Canada would react? If it was a test, we were abysmal failures in protecting our countries.

The White House put out a statement that the President had authorized the military to shoot down the balloon days prior to the actual downing of the balloon. Why hadn’t the orders been given before entering Alaskan airspace? Why didn’t the military shoot it down over very sparsely populated Montana where the debris could be recovered and analyzed?

God help us if this had been the beginning of WWIII. This is another example of our poor leadership in Washington DC and another blunder by Joe Biden in a string of many failures as Commander in Chief.