Author: Stan Norwalk
February 4th, 2023 in the early afternoon the U.S. Air force shot down the Chinese balloon with a sidewinder missile when they could have used the planes guns with dozens or perhaps hundreds of bullets. If these bullets can pierce the metal armored tanks, so the balloon shouldn’t be a problem.
The bullets would have had the same results and we would have been able to recover more of the balloon to examine .The disbursement of the debris would be spread over a smaller area.
Wikipedia says: The sidewinder cost US$381,069.74 (Block II) US$399,500.00 (Block II Plus) US$209,492.75 (training missile) (All as in 2019). We have high altitude fighter planes that could reach the altitude of the balloon and bullets that if they can penetrate armor plated steel tanks certainly could have brought down the balloon.
Let’s look at it from an economic point of view. I would prefer to spend a few hundred or a few thousand dollars on bullets than $400,000 dollars on a side winder missile.
This appears as if the military corporate complex wants our leaders to use their high tech, high cost equipment so they can get the benefit of a $ 400,000 dollar sale rather than sell a few bullets worth a few thousand dollars. Defense contractors using corporate lobbying and influence peddling really works.
And why did we wait for the balloon to travel for 7 days from the Western Aleutian Islands territory of Alaska to off the coast of the Carolina’s on the east coast collecting all kinds of top secret data and flying over highly sensitive military bases and nuclear missile sites?
Is our President compromised by his son’s business relationships with China like the 1.5 billion dollar deal that drug addict Hunter walked away with? Or was Joe compromised by the 54.6 million dollars that flowed into the University of Pennsylvania between 2014 and 2019 from China after Joe opened his Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement? Oh and then there was another 31 billion dollar deal from the Chinese elite. Nice work if your name is Biden.
In order to succeed in this world you no longer have to go to college although Hunter did. The new prerequisites for success are get kicked out of the military for drug abuse after one year of service, hang out with hookers, get high on whatever your preferred drugs are, go after your dead brothers wife, and to put the icing on the cake have no experience in the business deals you are involved in yet earning millions and millions of Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian money because your dads name is Biden.
The cover-ups by the liberal press ,the US attorney’s office, the FBI, the woke media, and perhaps the guy in the Presidency could make you very comfortable in life and stay out of the way of criminal prosecution. What part of that money did Joe get?
Why was that balloon allowed to freely move about? Joe says that had we shot it down it may have caused civilian casualties. But there were plenty of open spaces between Alaska and the Carolina’s without populations that would have allowed Joe to issue the command to take this balloon down.
What if that balloon was preparing to attack our military bases, missile sites and other strategic and civilian locations? The waiting could have been catastrophic.
We know that the Chinese balloon was not taking tourist on a sight seeing tour. At a minimum it was collecting data which is critical to our national defense. What else was it doing? What type of military payload was this balloon carrying? This Presidential indecision has cost the USA dearly! To what extent? Will we ever know?
Have we not learned any lessons from 9/11/2011?
Why did our President allow this to happen? Was it stupidity? Incompetence? Carefulness? Diplomacy? Quid Pro Quo? Poor advice from his military and political advisors like President Barack Hussein Obama or Susan Rice ex National Security Advisor, or Americas’ top military guy General Milley, Chairman of the Joints Chief of Staff for Biden. The General had fallen asleep at the wheel being distracted by teaching CRT and “Wokeness” to our military instead of keeping an eye on how we leave Afghanistan with all our allies, equipment, safely and securely, or protecting our borders or paying attention to what is an unauthorized balloon doing flying over our sovereign skies?
America is being penetrated on the land and in the skies above at will by the entire world. We are no longer a country but a free candy store for all to enter and take from us whatever they want at the expense of our national security and tax payer dollars.
Our Government is not proactive but reactive. They are reckless and unaccountable to our citizens; many believe owned and payed for by some countries as well as corporations and some individuals.
Can anyone connect the dots? This administration is either compromised or stupid. Perhaps in this “woke” generation our President identifies as the leader of the Peoples Republic of China.
You decide.
Can you be more specific about the content of your article? After reading it, I still have some doubts. Hope you can help me.
What are your doubts?