Ray From Cleveland
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Before Monday, U.S. officials had said that at least three times during the Trump administration and at least one other time during Biden’s time as president balloons have crossed American airspace, but not for this long. In those instances, the United States determined the balloons belonged to China only after they had left U.S. airspace, said Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. Northern Command.
“I will tell you that we did not detect those threats,” VanHerck said of his military command. “And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out.” He added that the U.S. intelligence community “after the fact” informed his command about the balloons.
'Whining' is the Neo-GOP's middle name. Ya'll whine that Joe doesn't listen to the military, then whine when he does.
That's because if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. And if the public wasn't made aware of this situation, that balloon would have flown all the way back to China and Dementia wouldn't have done a thing. You don't need to be in the military to decide it was more than safe enough to shoot the thing down in rural if not vacant areas in Alaska or Montana. Even the Governor of Montana made that statement. He said there are plenty of areas in his state where nobody is around for miles.
The deep state trying to cover each others asses is all this is.