Biden won't shoot down Chinese spy balloon over US

PurpleThrobber · February 2023

Swaye said:
Only reason that balloon is even here is to test our response. Turns out the Chinese got the exact response they paid for.

Come on and try to fuck around invading, CCP

Wolverines!! will help them find out.

SFGbob · February 2023

Bob_C said:
No one has been tougher on China than Joe.

Did he tell you about the time he went "toe to toe" with them?

thechatch · February 2023

hardhat said:

thechatch said:
Excuse made for not shooting it down is dear of casualties on the ground, I believe.

Then again the thing is hovering over eastern Montana….

Tbh I’m not really sure where I’m at on this. I guess Ideally you demand that China remote lands the thing in a cow pasture and you take custody, and then embarrass the shit out of the CCP but I guess we’re gonna let it just float around in our airspace and accept some ridiculous excuse/apology from Chinese communist state media.

But that thing needs to be on the ground asap.
With the missiles we have today, they could vaporize that thing and any debris would be minimal.

I understand this perfectly.

We’d ideally want to preserve the tech and see whatever they’re spying on, though.

Tell them to land it. If they say no, evacuate the drop radius and blow it to dust.

I mean it’s a fucking balloon. This shouldn’t be that hard to address diplomatically or otherwise. Right now we essentially have a spying apparatus from our greatest geopolitical adversary that is being allowed to just float around in our sovereign airspace at an altitude that commercial jet liners fly at and we are doing what, exactly?

Hemming and hawing like it’s just NBD.

That response from the CCP is a test. “Oh we’re sorry this thing floated over thousands of miles of N American soil. We regret it.”

*Snicker*

Biden needs to be in front of a microphone yesterday signalling publicly to China that they have 3 hrs to land it at specified coordinates or we’ll blow it out of the sky and then we’ll be at the table to discuss trade agreements in the coming months.

But he can’t because he’s a fucking joke and his entire admin is run by the same people that are floating spy balloons over our citizens and their land.

It’s absurd.