About the balloon

by Jerry Esmay, Stevensville

Were you aware of and follow the enormous China balloon that recently crossed our country? Don’t know how you could have missed it if you ever turned a radio or TV on, but let me review what happened.

This enormous Chinese balloon flying at 60,000+ feet came down across Alaska and Canada, slowly moved over Montana, and then on down across the U.S. “heartland” until we shot it down off the coast of North Carolina.

A lot of unanswered questions as I write this:

Why did we let this happen? Biden spokesmen contend that there was concern for the safety of persons/buildings on the ground, so waited until after it was over water before shooting it down. This is nonsense in my opinion as we could have shot it down over unpopulated areas of Alaska or sparsely populated areas of Montana.

Or, once we observed that it was maneuverable, why didn’t we confront the Chinese and demand they “fly” this away from our country?

What was the “real” objective(s) behind this incident? “Talking heads” are arguing that this is much concern about nothing. Hmm, I disagree. They, the Chinese, have gathered important information on our high-level decision-making process and times.  They surely have also accumulated higher-resolution photography of the area flown over, and enormous amounts of “signal intelligence” associated with our military/civilian communications.

Why were we, common citizens, not told about this until it was visually spotted over Billings? What else is going on that we haven’t been told about?

Have you considered that this might be a “Trojan Horse” type scenario where the Chinese want us to consider that these balloons are harmless, but to then use one or more during an attack on us by carrying a nuclear weapon and/or a laser to hit our missiles as they come out of their silos?

Has the reader recognized that China is our greatest threat and that we have many reasons to be worried about their dominance in world affairs and influence over our country? Here are a few of my observations/opinions:

Economic domination over us through their control of pharmaceuticals, semi-conductors and rare minerals. If you haven’t heard about these concerns, you need to do your own investigation.

Using university research grant funding to steal our intellectual ideas and discoveries.

Threatening/testing us on the world stage through participating in partnerships with our other adversaries, or threatening us with proposals about their intent to take Taiwan.

Buying up real estate in our country, especially farm land.

Participating in other activities oriented toward harming us individually and/or economically. Prime example is their supplying the chemicals needed to create Fentanyl to Mexican drug cartels.

Folks, we need to be concerned, very concerned!