It will be a while before we know what the Chinese balloon drifting over west to east of the US was about. Maybe we’ll find out from some FIOA request. Maybe we’ll get some credible explanation once the inevitable post administration books are published, when some insider spills the beans about chaos or contention from the White House situation room. On the other hand, we may get an idea of what it was all about when another balloon or a drone or a few high-altitude sonic jets start crossing our airspace with impunity. Hopefully we won’t see an array of delivery systems crossing our shores, carrying EMP capable munitions, nukes; all the while, a compromised rudderless administration dithers between a senile traitor and a whole upper echelon of emasculated generals point at one another, with no clear chain of command, everyone too afraid to make the wrong move on their own. But this is our fear, and we, even to include a lot of stone quiet Democrats, have good reason to feel this way.
I don’t think I can give a comprehensive list of what was out of place this week as the Chinese balloon crossed our entire country but here are a few takes, a few factoids. The official narrative from the Biden administration is, to paraphrase: trust us, we knew what it was, we didn’t want it to fall on anyone by shooting it down, we finally shot it down once it was safe, nothing to see here.
Problems emerge to this storyline once other factors are considered. We learn after the fact that the administration kept it secret for two days. A general tells us someone may get hurt if they shoot it down over the western US. Anyone that has flown over the western US detects BS here. We can fly a spaceship through a needle hole, but we couldn’t intercept a balloon over a hundred-mile sheet of flat empty dirt? It’s a weather balloon. No, it’s not. China doesn’t have control over it. Whoops, they do have control over it. They are in contact with China that is urging calm. We clearly don’t want to anger them, even if it was nothing but a birthday balloon. But we DID shoot it down, after it finished its mission over our soil. Xi can’t get angry about that can he? Biden said to shoot it down Wednesday, but they shot it down Saturday. The generals said shoot it down, Biden said no. Clearly there are contradictions. It isn’t just the media, the sources are presenting contradictions to the media, indicating turmoil from within the administration. Every request for information or consultation is stonewalled. Governors that had the balloon fly over their state have been met with silence. We know the Biden family has received significant amounts of money from CCP sources, before and during this term. ‘People can look up in the sky if they want to know’, according to Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder. People can just as easily look at the Biden’s open-source scandals, openly chronicled in the thrice confirmed Hunter Biden laptop and by so many other sources, and they can understand when a President is compromised, forced into a subservient hand, setting up the United States for the mother of all national defense vulnerabilities. There is also no question that the entire defense establishment acted very differently to this case than to any other sovereign and or military threat, ever. The balloon is a dry run, for certain; the only question is for what scale of event and when. Our only hope here is that Xi is crushed domestically before he advances his plans or our own leadership is changed before that timeline.
By Monday, all the conspicuously quiet Biden apologists will be out in force to rewrite what you and I observed this week. One does not have to have any specific intel on this specific event to identify the obvious contradictions, open discord, and the critical vulnerabilities that the case demonstrates. ‘Trust us’ is a cynical empty notion if we follow the advice of Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder.
If you’d like to comment on this post, feel free to do so on Twitter. Follow me: @leestanNEreader