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:
1. 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.
2. Or, once we observed that it was maneuverable, why didn’t we confront the Chinese
and demand they “fly” this away from our country?
3. 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.
4. Why weren’t 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?
5. 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:
1. 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.
2. Using university research grant funding to steal our intellectual ideas and discoveries.
3. 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.
4. Buying up real estate in our country, especially farm land.
5. 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!
Helen Sabin says
Howard – stop with your nonsense. IT doesn’t matter who was President and if balloons flew over. The question is NOW! Do you really think Biden is capable of handling the Chinese when he is on their payroll? IF you do…you must have the same mental acuity as Biden.
Gomez says
First, please supply a link to support the claim that Biden has taken secret money from China. Second, you are aware of this, correct?
From Forbes magazine;
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China signed a lease for space in 2008, years before the president Trump took office, paying about $1.9 million in annual rent. Trump is well-aware of the deal. “I’ll show you the Industrial Bank of China,” he told three Forbes journalists touring Trump Tower in 2015. “I have the best tenants in the world in this building.”
Trump moved from the skyscraper to the White House in 2017, but he held onto ownership of the retail and office space in the building, through his 100% interest in an entity called Trump Tower Commercial LLC. That put him in an unusual position, given that government-owned entities in China hold at least 70% of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. Suddenly, a routine real estate deal became a conduit for a foreign superpower to pay the president of the United States.”
Fact checked;
“Since 2017, the Trump Organization has earned almost $5.4 million by renting to a bank owned by China. In addition, since Trump became president, the Trump Organization has received 38 trademarks in China, to place the Trump name on golf clubs, child-care centers, and nursing homes. “
helen sabin says
The Chinese have satellites that have all this info a long time ago. But I agree – with BIDEN in charge and taking bribe money from the Chinese – we are in danger of a nuke, a coup, or some other attempt on our country. Whether the Chinese were playing games, testing or whatever, we need a strong response – but with the DEMS in charge it won’t come.. THUS – we need to impeach Biden, Harris, and put the new speaker in as POTUS! Then we talk strongly to the Chinese, Russians, No Koreans and anyone else who want to attack this country. You are right to be concerned. I am!
Howard S. says
Odd that you don’t mention the multiple Chinese balloons that flew over the U.S. during the Trump administration that we only found out about after this latest balloon was reported. I wonder why those balloons, and the fact that our defense systems at the time didn’t even detect them until after they had passed completely over the U.S., wouldn’t be even more concerning to you? Curious.
Also, if China wanted to start a nuclear war with us, I’m pretty sure launching the thousands of ICBMs loaded with nuclear warheads we know they have would be a better strategy than hoping the wind blows a single nuclear balloon over something important.
If the issue is intelligence gathering, the Chinese have spy satellites passing over our country right now collecting way more information than that balloon was ever capable of.
The Pentagon determined that shooting the balloon down over land posed more risk than allowing it to pass harmlessly overhead until it was over water. That looks like the correct assessment to me.