Winston
Platinum Member
Let's just be real here. Had Biden shot it down immediately I am sure FOX news and others would have found something to complain about. Why did he shoot it down when we could have watched what it was doing? Now we will never know where it was headed. Could they not have just poked a hole in it and let it come down slowly so we could examine it intact.The overflights was clearly not accidental.
But the Communist Chinese aren’t playing chess or even Chinese checkers. They are simply using relatively inexpensive methods to continue their endless spying on us.
In practical reality, a U.S. satellite orbiting above the earth’s atmosphere in a geosynchronous orbit over a part of China is engaged in spying on them every bit as much as the Chinese lower tech balloon method. But actually putting an object in our airspace is obviously a lot more immediately threatening.
Our mistake (President Potato’s mistake, that is) was not shooting their balloon down before it made its overhead journey across the nation.