Why Doesn’t Biden’s Pentagon Shoot Down the Chinese Surveillance Balloon Over Montana?

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The Biden Administration has decimated America’s credibility and deterrence. This is the result. A Chinese spy balloon flying over the state of Montana. The CCP would not have dared done this under President Trump. Gd help us.

A massive Chinese surveillance balloon has been hovering over the northern United States for the last few days, senior defense officials confirmed on Thursday – with Bidenbeing briefed on Wednesday about his options, including shooting it out of the sky. But he didn’t.

Was The Government Ever Going To Tell Us About The Chinese Surveillance Balloon? (The Federalist)

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On Thursday afternoon, NBC News revealed that a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon is hovering over Billings, Montana. The supposed weapon of espionage had apparently flown from the Alaskan Aleutian Islands and over Canada before making its way to airspace above the U.S. nuclear arsenal. According to NBC News, the balloon was spotted over the state that’s home to 150 warheads on Wednesday, near where the Chinese have been buying up American farmland.

The Federalist: “The U.S. military has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering over the northern U.S. for the past few days,” NBC reported. “Military and defense leaders have discussed shooting it out of the sky, according to two U.S. officials and a senior defense official.”

Defense officials told reporters that military leaders refused to shoot the balloon down because a widespread debris field would pose a threat to civilian life in the rural state. According to The Wall Street Journal, President Joe Biden was briefed on the issue on Wednesday.

If the Pentagon knew the surveillance tool was on its way to the nuclear arsenal, however, why didn’t the president have it shot down when it was over Alaska? Was Biden’s Wednesday briefing his first? Why wasn’t he told sooner? Why didn’t officials inform the public when it crossed into U.S. airspace? Did our government maybe not catch the balloon and are now covering for their own negligence? And why didn’t the Canadians shoot it down?

Even more troubling is why the Chinese would have a surveillance balloon over Montana in the first place, considering Beijing’s advanced satellites in low-earth orbit that provide all the bird’s eye images they need. Are they sending a message before Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to the Chinese capital next week?

US government monitoring suspected Chinese spy balloon over northern states

Senior U.S. defense official said government closely monitoring suspected Chinese spy balloon

By Fox News, February 3, 2023

The U.S. government is monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been moving over northern states over the past several days.

Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said during a briefing on Thursday afternoon that the U.S. government has detected a high-altitude surveillance balloon over the continental U.S.

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Kuffar
Kuffar
1 year ago

Should Biden have the military down the Chinese spy balloon it would interfere with the BIDEN FAMILY INCOME STREAM. And it would piss off Biden’s overlords.

Staff Sg Chaos
Staff Sg Chaos
1 year ago

You can put pretty much anything in that balloon that could hurt us more, like an airborne virus again, anthrax, sometime of bomb. Capture it but don’t shoot it down. Our Government Leaders are JEOPARDIZING OUR LIVES, you traitors!!!!!!!

Last edited 1 year ago by Staff Sgt Chaos
Harry Grimes
Harry Grimes
1 year ago
Reply to  Staff Sg Chaos

Apparently, the Japanese used balloons in WWII to disseminate biological weapons.

42beegeeD
42beegee
1 year ago
Reply to  Harry Grimes

Scroll down to read amusing stories of WWII.
https://twitter.com/NavalInstitute/status/1621310952489590785

Master Turkeychoker
Master Turkeychoker
1 year ago
Reply to  Staff Sg Chaos

oh-come now. you can`t believe our benevolent leaders would let anything bad happen to us. It just seems awfully judgemental.

joanofark06
joanofark06
1 year ago

To your comment, I’m going to go with, that was sarcasm, lol? And to think I just made a comment above, saying about this same thing. Uncle Sam will always save us…HA! What a dream…that what some people believe is actually reality..
(And perhaps, next time you could put “sarc/off”, after a sarcasm comment? Or was it? lol)

joanofark06
joanofark06
1 year ago
Reply to  Staff Sg Chaos

OR…what else can they have on those balloons? If someone doesn’t know what an EMP is, they better start learning what it is! We could be put back to the Stone Age, with two of those, but I just read a report that just one would do the job good, to this country. And guess who makes our power transformers? That’s right…China! Would someone say that our so called “government”, would have a good amount of them, stored away somewhere? Hardly….”they” don’t worry about an EMP like all this country’s population does, because “they” can live underground, with places so nice, that it’s like a brand new city, with years of provisions, for “themselves”, while the rest of us, barely survive. And there will be those fools, who will still believe that their “government”, will be there, to restore order, as soon as they can, and feed everyone! It’ll be hard not to laugh at these people, and their belief (still) in their government caring for all their citizens, and would never leave them, in this dire time. Those are the ones, that won’t stock up, and all of these type will be weeded out in short order.
It’s been reported for years, on many survival websites, that most of the population will die within the first 6 months of this horrible technology, for a host of MANY possible reasons. One of them is gangs gone wild, because when there’s no more law and order, and when they get hungry, they’ll go house to house, city to city, and decimate everything, include kill home owners, just for nothing.
While OBiden is trying his hardest to start WWIII, everyone should be stocking up (but should have already been doing that!), and getting prepared. It’d be better to have it and not need it, than to need it, and not have it.
I, myself, have been buying one or two items, when I go to the grocery store, and put them aside for survival, or get a few items to store away, when I go to a dollar store, and etc etc. It’s not hard at all, when you think survival a majority of the day, and sign up with newsletters from various websites, for world news, and keep up with new ideas from survival websites. I know it’s going to be hard, when there will be people coming to me and my family, begging for food/water/medicines, when they had plenty of good years to get ready for any scenario, and believed nothing would ever happen to THIS country! And even if it does, the “government” will come and save them…
NO excuse for ignorance, or laziness!!

TomSJr
TomSJr
1 year ago

Surely you jest, PAM.

IF ANY NEWS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH CHINA, JUST KNOW THAT THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT HAS GOT CHINA’S BACK.

I saw this on the news and was APPALLED, but not surprised AT ALL THE EXCUSES officials claimed as to why they did NOT shoot that balloon down.

THE MAJORITY OF OUR GOVT LEADERS ARE COMMUNIST.
Enough said……………

Last edited 1 year ago by TomSJr
fir1
fir1
1 year ago
Reply to  TomSJr

Ryder should be removed – obviously he can’t do the job we’re paying him to do – protect us from all threats ..How close do you think if we launched a balloon at China do you think it would get to their airspace?

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
1 year ago
Reply to  TomSJr

China owns America. Period. Own a home? Paid in full, you say? Hold the phone. The ground under your feet more than likely is now in China’s possession. Who owns all that debt you hear about? Some day you will receive a notice to vacate. And you, America, made it possible with your poor voting habit beginning in 1912, but especially since 1972. You will get what you want.

turtlebrat
turtlebrat
1 year ago

Hey Pam, most of us know why and the reality is ugly.

Snowedin
Snowedin
1 year ago

Just heard that is possibly an EMP balloon with a nuclear payload.

Master Turkeychoker
Master Turkeychoker
1 year ago
Reply to  Snowedin

perhaps a dry run test ? See how far they could get before we did anything ? Might be more coming we havn`t been told about, yet.

joanofark06
joanofark06
1 year ago

I don’t know, but seems like your idea would take up a lot of time, logistics, and so many other factors I’m not aware of….to waste their time doing that. I don’t claim to know the Chinese that well, but I feel like their not the type of people to waste their time, playing games like that. Just my opinion, and could be wrong.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
1 year ago
Reply to  Snowedin

Think a detonation for EMP must occur above stratosphere – let’s say in the ionosphere – to be effective. Still a nuke or other instrument of war on board this unpopped monstrosity is not out of the question. Find a target and let ‘er drop. Forget the “pop”. No matter – our LGBTQ-sympathizing leaders will do nothing anyway. Thanks.

joanofark06
joanofark06
1 year ago
Reply to  Snowedin

That was the first thought I had, when I first heard about this balloon business over our country. And to think I had just read and downloaded a great 6 page article on this same subject, before coming and reading Pam’s article here…
Anyway, with your comment, I can say to everyone, that this is a very real possibility.
I’ve been most interested in the EMP subject, for many years now, and have read and collected a lot of documentation on the subject. But before coming here, to this website, I saw and read an article, that the second balloon is in Latin America. Which I haven’t seen an answer to that yet, of why that is, but might be forthcoming today or tomorrow, I’m sure. Anyway, that leads me back to the first balloon over THIS country. Why would they put an EMP on this country, using this “first” balloon, with the second balloon sitting over Latin America? That doesn’t add up in my book…
I can’t think of any reason, of what Latin America has done, now or in the past, to deserve any hostile reaction from China, that would come from their balloon there.
One thought of reasoning too, that I have, and I sure could be wrong on this, but to have two balloons, in two entirely different areas, it would seem to me, to be more logical, that both of them, are doing the same thing (and not doing an EMP strike)
And to go the other way, that these two balloons would do two entirely different actions, in two different areas of the world, doesn’t seem to compute in my brain, as logical…lol. But, as I said, I may be wrong, but I’d be surprised if I was.

Last edited 1 year ago by joanofark06
Commieobamie
Commieobamie
1 year ago

Communism is FUN!

Walter Sieruk
Walter Sieruk
1 year ago

Pseudo “president” Joe Biden completely refuses to shoot down that spy balloon sent from Communist China because Biden doesn’t want to displease his master ,who is the President/tyrant of Red China , XI Jinping. Biden is the puppet of that dictator of mainland China who is likewise the puppet master of weak and treacherous horrible old Joe.

For Biden is nothing but a tool and stooge as well lap dog of Jinping and will do anything he wants him to do or not do, as have the US Air Force shoot down that surveillance balloon.

For a number of sinister reasons, such as he admires the socialism / Communist ideology of mainland China.

Biden must also like the tyrannical oppressor of Communist China against its citizens since he absolutely is copying Red China’s imprisonment system of that regime’s tyrant Xi Jinping who has political prisoners who are held in cruel cells and treated terrible and denied their basis human rights.

For that Joe Biden has political prisoners from January 6, 2021, who are held in cruel cells and treated terrible and denied their basic human rights.

Another sinister reason that Biden will do nothing to help victims of Red China is because he is so horribly corrupt that he willingly accepts bribes from Xi Jinping and other high ranking members of the ruling Communist party of China.

About that last point ,the Bible reads ” The wicked accept bribes in secret to pervert the course of justice.”

Proverbs 17:23. [N. I. V.]

Patti
Patti
1 year ago

This is an act of war

joanofark06
joanofark06
1 year ago
Reply to  Patti

If we went to war, with everyone who has entered our territory, in one form or another, we’d be pretty busy. Did you hear about the Russia submarines in our eastern costal waters, sometime back? Or off of the California coast? I still have an article I kept of the day I found out, about Russian’s submarine, in Charleston’s waters of South Carolina (my state). That one worried me pretty good. And there’s probably many other countries, that we’re not privy too, that have entered our airspace, and such.
BUT then again, I can only IMAGINE how many times THIS “government” of ours, has went to MANY other country’s waters, and airspace, probably since THIS country came about, or began! I don’t even wanna know how many times another country has come close to hitting us, for REAL, whether it’d be ship or plane, or whatever, for THIS COUNTRIES ACTIONS TOWARD ANOTHER!! That I’m sure we’re not even told about!
I think it’s an act of war, for American people to sit on their rumps and have this “person” acting as an demented idiot, in our White House, DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY, and HAS CONTINUED DOING THAT SINCE DAY ONE, AND THAT IS AN ACT OF WAR TO ME!!!!
I THINK I’D SWITCH SIDES, TO ANY COUNTRY, IF THEY HAVE THE “YOU KNOW WHAT”, TO TAKE THIS PIECE OF “YOU KNOW WHAT”, AND DROP HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN!!
Act of war, ppfffttt…I’D SHOW YOU WHAT AN ACT OF WAR IS! Maybe China or Russia or both working together (COUNT ME IN!) would feel sorry for what the American people have to deal with, would do this country a great service, and get this &^^%$ out of office!!’
Since the American people can’t seem to rise up in mass, and take their White House back!!! And THAT BURNS ME UP TOO!! Look at some countries, with thousands of their citizens protesting, FOR LESS and WE CANNOT DO ANYTHING, ABOUT THIS…PERSON DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY, LEFT AND RIGHT, UP AND DOWN….OH WELL, I’m done rantin’ Words don’t do anything here! But I’d sure call for an act of war, if it would get this piece of garbage OUT! IT’S NOT RIGHT WHAT HE’S DOING TO ME, YOU AND THE WHOLE POPULATION…ok, I quit for real this time..

Harry Grimes
Harry Grimes
1 year ago

The second treasonous president in American history. The DemoNazi Party is the party of sedition and treason. They have subverted America.

JoeyJ
JoeyJ
1 year ago

They are afraid that if they were to actually destroy the balloon, China would take the cost of it and any cargo out of “The Big Guy’s” 10% cut.

Harry Grimes
Harry Grimes
1 year ago

General Mark “Crazy Eyes” Milley needs to get permission to ask from his superior in the Chinese military. He is run out of China 🇨🇳. What we have is a seige of traitors at every level of government.

In the Oval Office a creepy traitor whose entire family is owned by the CCP.

WangDangDoodlinAllDayLong
WangDangDoodlinAllDayLong
1 year ago

The ChiCom’s are guilty of Biological warfare, the balloon does need to be removed, but consider this, at the start of the Wuhan KungFlu pandemic the USA caught China flying infected people into the USA almost along the same path the balloon is on, Trump did put a stop to the flights, although the damage was already done.

As Sg Chaos & Harry Grimes have pointed out, it maybe a trap….
Perhaps China has now sent over a Trojan weather/spy balloon filled with a biological poison instead as a test, and if it’s shot down it will definingly spread out and this is probably exactly what China wants to happen on order to start a second pandemic.
Maybe Xi JoePing Biden knows this and is why he’s reluctant to shoot it down right away.

Xi JoePing Biden is justifiably being squished between a rock and a hard place due to his failing Presidency and policies.
We should be super concerned about his involvement and decision. We have yet to see him make a single good one yet.

Last edited 1 year ago by WangDangDoodlinAllDayLong
joanofark06
joanofark06
1 year ago

I was just reading over your comment, and almost went beserk, when you put those “oh so caring” words, about “him” justifiably being squished between a rock and a hard place, due to his failing Presidency and policies”.
Just sounds like you feel so sorry for him….that almost made me want to gag. As for me, I wont feel a thing for one of Satan’s children. They deserve anything and everything they get, and if they bring on their “rock and a hard place” themselves, then OH WELL!! I’d tell ya to “grow a pair”, but you might be a female, that has SUCH A CARING HEART. Just to wake you up, a “caring heart” to that “thing” in our White House, couldn’t care less for your caring heart!

Nicola Timmerman
Nicola Timmerman
1 year ago

Trudeau talking tough now but no way we would have shot down the balloon and no way would we do it now. He is still denying that Chinese money went to several candidates in the last federal electioin.
If you want to see the future, check out the New Year’s Chinese fireworks celebrations with dozens of drones in formation. A number of drones can easily take out aircraft carriers trying to protect countries like Taiwan.

joanofark06
joanofark06
1 year ago

Yeah? Maybe if this country survives long enough, to get a REAL president, who knows how to lead people, and do what needs to be done, to keep their country strong and prosperous, and deal with other leaders, with a firm hand, when needed. The “thing” we have now, needs help going to the bathroom, and he’s gonna be protecting Tiawan from China?? I’d almost love to see that, just for the laugh (if it wasn’t so serious!
The one we have now? Has made enemies of the two other largest country’s in the world, and practically every smaller one. If there’s any countries standing with this “leader” we have now, then their just as evil and demented as he is, and is definitely NOT a ally!
So speaking of military equipment to protect another nation that is small, but we’ve told them, that we would protect them? Well, how many articles have you read in the last few months, that say that we’re not replacing all of the billions of dollars of military equipment, that we’ve given to this “country”, who does nothing but says it’s not enough, and keeps asking for more. And NOW, he want’s our fighter jets!!
You say we won’t ever give them that? Well OBiden said, we would never give them all our tanks either, but there they go…say bye bye!
We can only hope and pray, that other smaller countries, don’t take advantage of our VERY low military supplies, and again, with no replacing them. Bet Iran’s seriously thinking about it, and how many others?? Even the news of military service recruitment is VERY low now.
I’d sure would love to be optimistic about this country right now, but sure can’t find it in me, since this last stolen election, and how low we’ve come….sitting around watching thousands of other people protesting in other countries, for less….well that’s a hurtin thing…but I still wish them the best, and hope they can congratulate themselves later….

42beegeeD
42beegee
1 year ago

Why didn’t Biden or Trudeau shoot down the balloon?
Because they are both in the CCP’s pocket.

According to what I have read, the Government Officials were afraid the result of shooting the balloon down could have resulted in someone being killed. Excuses. The balloon could have been shot down in Alaska, Montana, Nebraska, or even Kansas where there is a lot of space and no one would have been killed.

Stephen
Stephen
1 year ago

Maybe they’re black mailing the bastard not to shoot them down. China has too much dirt on. He’s evil!

Stephen
Stephen
1 year ago

This would not happen under Trump! China is blackmailing Biden. He sold his soul to China for big bucks.

Master Turkeychoker
Master Turkeychoker
1 year ago
Reply to  Stephen

considering Hunters romps and smoke habits, Biden will do anything China says to protect Hunter. Money is just a paycheck from Chinese.

joanofark06
joanofark06
1 year ago

Guess the billions that Americans give this evil “government”, is packed up tight, and sent over to Ukraine. Another 2 billion, I read yesterday, went to them.

R.G.D
R.G.
1 year ago

Oh, well, we might as well get used to this kind of thing. The chi-coms put many “manchurian candidates” throughout the entire government. It isn’t just beijing biden.

Besides, we probably can’t shoot the thing down because we gave all of our air defense missile systems to Ukraine and we can’t afford the jet fuel for any fighter aircraft to go after the balloon.

jerry snaper
jerry snaper
1 year ago

Now that the balloon has been brought down lets hope we get an honest report of what it was carrying.

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