Spy In The Sky

Late yesterday, there was breaking news that the Pentagon was tracking a mysterious balloon from communist China. It had passed over Alaska, down through Canada and crossed into U.S. airspace above Montana. 

It flew over sensitive U.S. military sites, including one Air Force base with 150 ICBMs, a key part of our nuclear tirade that stops an enemy from attacking us. 

Next, we heard a multitude of excuses for why we aren’t doing anything about it, including the possibility that if it was shot down, debris might fall on someone on the ground. 

Well, there’s a lot of open space in Montana. The risk of hurting anyone on the ground seems minimal.  We should be thinking about the safety of Americans “down the road.”

We were told that the balloon probably wasn’t doing anything that satellites can’t do. Well, we’ve been repeatedly shocked by major advances in Chinese weapon systems in recent years. 

But if the balloon can’t do anything that satellites already do, why would communist China risk an incident if there is no value in it for them? I’m no military technology expert, but we’re supposed to be able to think “outside the box.”

What if it’s not just spying on us, but releasing something? What if there are pathogens in it? There are lots of legitimate questions.

What if they are testing to see how weak our will is? What if the purpose was to see what defenses were activated when we discovered it? F-22 fighter jets were reportedly scrambled to intercept it. Well, now the Chinese know how long that takes.

There’s a disturbing pattern here. We’ve discovered that Chinese interests are buying land near military bases in North Dakota. Now they’re flying spy balloons over military bases in Montana. That doesn’t sound like the normal activities of our “trading partner.”

Today, the Chinese government is suggesting that this is just a weather balloon that went off course. Right. Communist China routinely lies about everything – including genocide and pandemic diseases that killed millions. There is no reason to trust anything they say about this balloon!