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Popped Balloons
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Real missed opportunity for Biden in not dropping that balloon when it was over the midwest. Imagine how many yeehaw’s of approval Biden would have gotten by dropping a Chinese spy balloon into Cletus’s backyard.
Dumb move on China’s part. Significant downside, not worth any intelligence they could have gotten.
Trump might have started WW3 over a baloon(in deference to Donald Jr.) if he was made aware of it.
Shooting it down over water was probably for the best since it will result in far less damage than having crash into the ground. This will allow for far more intelligence to be gathered from the debris.
It seems to me that shooting a balloon out of the sky with a sidewinder missile and having the payload crash to Earth was a really crude response. Wasn’t there a way to capture it? Lasso it with a tether attached to a parachute and then pop the balloon with simple aerial gunnery?
I’ve finally figured it out! After piecing together clues over the years, this article puts the final piece of the puzzle into place. The real identity of “Heisenberg” is… Jackie Treehorn. The reason he’s so misanthropic is because the Sheriff of Malibu hasn’t managed to stop deadbeats from crashing his beachfront garden parties.
Can you imagine if debris would have hit an aircraft or two? Our sky is full of them every day. The FAA/DOD needed to avoid more than just bison in Montana. Biden was never going to win this unless he donned a cape and shot it down barehanded.
I think all judgement regarding this balloon should be reserved for after the analysis of the debris is conducted. We don’t know what this thing was for and at this point we’re all just guessing.