Biden’s “Beautiful” CCP Balloon By Charles Taylor (Florida)
Sean Ross Callaghan has made an observation which I have not seen made anywhere else. First, there was an agreement under the Open Skies Treaty that actually allowed signatory countries to fly over the US and get an eye-full. Of course, everything would have been long covered up by the time the spook aircraft got over head. The idea expressed is that while China has not signed the Open Skies Treaty, Beijing Biden may have let communist China do a fly over anyway, perhaps as part of a deal. It is possible, but I tend to go with the idea that communist China is now so cocky that it is doing the provocation that it daily engages in with Taiwan, to its main enemy, the United States.
https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/07/did-biden-tell-china-to-send-the-balloon/
“It’s usually called an invasion when a military aircraft breaches national airspace without permission. America was in a world war the last known time foreign military aircraft invaded airspace over America’s homeland. Imperial Japan sent thousands of bombs on balloons over the westerly Pacific winds into the continental United States. One killed six Sunday school picnickers in Oregon.
Yet that was not the last time foreign military aircraft flew over the United States. Before last week’s military balloon from China, it had happened dozens of times before—with America’s permission.
Starting in 2002, select nations could fly unarmed spy planes over America’s military bases, including its nuclear weapons sites. Under the Open Skies Treaty, any signatory nation could begin an overflight with as little as 72-hours’ notice. The aim was to reassure parties to the treaty that none were preparing a surprise attack.
“If we’re going to attack,” the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark A. Milley, told Red China’s top general in 2020, “I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.” China then had only Milley to reassure it because China never signed the Open Skies treaty. But Russia did. Between 2002 and 2020, Russia made dozens of flights over the United States.
President Trump pulled out of the Open Skies treaty in 2020 after Russia refused the United States flights over Russian bases in Kaliningrad and Georgia. Enter Joe Biden. Notoriously pro-China and anti-Russia along with the rest of the leftist Western regime, how would he and his administration have viewed a request by China to overfly military bases in the continental United States?
“There not bad folks, folks . . . they’re not competition for us,” said Joe Biden about China in 2019—by which time China had apparently funneled millions to him, his brother, and his beyond compromised and crack-addled son, Hunter. Yet Russia was an “enemy,” Biden wrote the year before. So why should Russia, China wondered—just as a leftist neocon did in The Atlantic mere hours after the balloon’s reveal—have had 18 years of flights over American bases but China not even one? A Biden Administration, one viewing a Chinese economy towering over Russia’s as an asset—personal if not national—could only answer in China’s favor. And, that could explain the many and varied features of last week’s bizarre balloon saga.
Take the Pentagon’s response: there was none. At first, some supposed that the balloon slipped through early-warning radars. But it didn’t. The military refused to say when, exactly, it started tracking the balloon, but admitted that it had a track on it by the time it neared American airspace over the remote Aleutian Islands off the southern tip of Alaska. Yet, the administration kept the balloon secret for days and planned to keep it secret forever.
Take the State Department’s response: none there, either. At first, some supposed that Secretary of State Antony Blinken canceled his trip to Beijing to protest China’s balloon invasion. But he didn’t. He postponed—but did not cancel—his planned meeting in Beijing with China’s dictator, Xi Jinping, only because the White House feared how bad it would look to American voters if Blinken were kowtowing to Red China while Beijing’s army airship stalked the American heartland on a red carpet. The administration told the public about the balloon as it hovered about a nuclear-missile base in Montana, but only because the Billings Gazette published a photograph of it that afternoon and the jig was up.
And then there’s the most bizarre thing of all: that the Pentagon kept calling it a “spy balloon.” Why was it so sure? All the American public could see was a huge balloon carrying a big box. That slow, simple balloon could have been the perfect way to deliver a nuclear bomb over American soil to detonate in the atmosphere before America knew it was under attack: a floating Trojan Horse that would cause an electromagnetic pulse, destroying the electrical grid and frying electronics across swaths of the American continent.
Did the Pentagon know the balloon was instead a scheduled overflight, permitted by Joe Biden himself? What else explains its irritating insouciance?
The Constitution requires agreements like the Open Skies treaty to be ratified by the Senate. Both Obama and Biden, whose administrations include many of the same officials, believe that there is little for which a president needs to ask permission from Congress to do. That includes making backdoor treaties like Obama’s Iran nuclear deal, which Biden seeks to revive.
So, how would Biden and his administration have reacted if Xi asked to fly spy balloons over America’s military bases? Biden and his drippingly pro-China administration, Milley included, probably would have said “welcome to our open skies.” And, they probably would have thought that they could open the door to China, in secret, without asking Congress.
No American should ever have to wonder whose side the president or the Pentagon is on. Congress and the press must get real answers explaining why China’s balloon made it over the American homeland. If Joe Biden committed or abetted a crime or a crime-like act to aid a Chinese military mission, he must be impeached and removed from office. The usual hot air from Joe Biden and his flacks won’t fly this time.
Matthew G. Andersson has another take on the great balloon saga, that it clearly shows the incompetency of the US defense system, and its head, Joe Biden.
“The media report of a Chinese-sponsored high-altitude balloon, the follow-up reports of its flight path over U.S. geography, and the "shoot-down" event that followed are all subject to factual testing, but on its face, the story represents one overwhelmingly incoherent assertion: that a slow-moving midlevel atmospheric balloon could violate U.S. airspace.
How could a Chinese (or any other) foreign object enter U.S. national airspace (the "NAS" or national airspace system, controlled by the DOD and the civilian FAA) without its presence known far beforehand, and its flight path not tracked and projected? And if a very slow-moving balloon, let alone a supersonic aircraft, or a hypersonic missile, is not announced over a public communication system until it is already over U.S. airspace, loitering over the Midwest, what does this say about our entire national defense system and about NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command), or about general civil defense and public notification systems?
It is of interest that the September 11, 2001 tragedy was defined in part by a still unexplained failure of the entire NORAD system, declared in the final 911 Report to be systematically preoccupied with joint simulations and drills. In the case of the Chinese balloon incident, what then is offered as an explanation for its apparently unknown presence over the U.S., and its casual trajectory over military installations, nuclear facilities, industrial operations, dense population centers, and civil infrastructure? Moreover, why was it supposedly shot down over the Atlantic Ocean, and its recovery made problematic, when it could have been captured through routine in-flight procedures, and towed effectively to a defense installation for examination? It could also have been easily compromised in its ability to maintain altitude, without destroying it, and recovered intact.
So its undeclared presence until it was reported through a purported chance observation by a civilian airline passenger near the U.S.-Canadian border, its casual observation as it trekked across America, and its effectively botched capture and examination all point to a command structure that is operating a low-level psychological operation; a domestic project labeled a foreign source (which is a traditional military and intelligence practice); a simplistic pretextual exercise for eventual military escalation; or a reflection of a defense bureaucracy apparently preoccupied with political, racial, and biomedical interferences, and otherwise led by a civilian commander who qualifies for 25th Amendment, Section 3 removal (fitness).
Or is the current Biden administration perhaps so ideologically allied with China that it continues to see its leadership, political system, and philosophical ideology as a model and roadmap for U.S. domestic control, and is acting in concert with it? As the current administration continues to violate the Constitution in explicit acts characterized under Article III, cooperating with a foreign enemy who has declared a 100-year strategic war against the United States, it would not be inconsistent.
One thing is sure: whenever an event has any military or national security implications, the story that is released to the public is carefully crafted as a public relations communication and not as a report of fact.”
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