The Chinese Spy Balloon Story is Full of Hot Air

The Chinese balloon story doesn’t make sense, and everyone gets it wrong. Here’s why.

It’s not the Cold War anymore, with secret agents from both sides frantically trying to smuggle microfilm past the iron curtain. If China really wanted photos and video of American flyover country, they wouldn’t need to send a balloon. They could hire a dozen cessna pilots to comb the country with cameras under their wings, it would be completely legal, and the results would almost certainly be better than whatever that balloon picked up.

Most likely, the Chinese version of events, that a civilian balloon wandered off course, is true. This isn’t even the first time such an incident has happened. For example, in 1998, an American weather balloon drifted into Canada then across the Atlantic over British airspace, before wandering off into the Arctic (and Russian airspace, apparently). This balloon incident happened at a lower altitude so was, apparently, considered a safety threat, but all attempts to shoot it down failed.

There is an aspect of this incident that I find much more concerning. The first is how Biden’s team responded to the airspace intrusion, and continued to respond to it until the end. Why wait to make a public statement until people found out on their own? Why then choose to turn this into a huge diplomatic incident with the Chinese? Why make such a silly, childish spectacle out of blowing up the balloon after it’s already left American airspace?

Bottom line, the Biden team dishonest, easily manipulated, emotionally fragile, and they’re incompetent. They’re more concerned about how the public perceives a security threat than they are about the threat itself. It’s very easy to imagine these petty, inept morons dragging the USA, and the rest of the world, into a nuclear war because they’re too cowardly and stupid to take obvious steps to prevent it.

All that said, the balloon memes were pretty hiliarious.

And my own addition:

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