In Your Face: Xi Sends Giant Spy Balloon
Over US Days Before Blinken Trip to Beijing
Gateway Pundit,
by
Kristinn Taylor
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
2/2/2023 10:11:47 PM
Days before Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to arrive in Beijing on Sunday, Communist China President Xi Jinping disrespected Blinken and Joe Biden by sending a giant spy balloon over the Northwest United States this week where it was spotted by a civilian on Wednesday and caused the Billings airport to shut down for several hours.(Photo/Tweet) Video shot Wednesday by Montana resident John Martin: (Tweet/Video) Martin followed-up by noting the Billing airport was shut down for about two hours Wednesday:
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rich323 2/2/2023 10:20:18 PM (No. 1393391)
Lots of military training goes on low level and maneuver areas in Montana and South Dakota. The Chinese are probably observing and recording weapons tactics and defensive maneuvers with HD cameras in preparation for a Taiwan showdown. B-52 B-1 and maybe B-2 ops. Also detecting locations of nuclear missile silos in ND SD and Montana. Biden is selling secrets for free by allowing them to observe our military capability.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
navybrat 2/2/2023 10:30:21 PM (No. 1393398)
This should scare every American who is not scared already. Such boldness. They know the U.S. is weak with no leadership at this time. Who or what will stop them.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Italiano 2/2/2023 10:42:09 PM (No. 1393404)
It could be worse: an FBI/DOJ/CIA spy satellite.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 2/2/2023 11:03:04 PM (No. 1393411)
How do we know this "spy balloon" doesn't have a nuclear weapon onboard? One good-sized blast, high above us, as the balloon is, would take out electronics across the entire nation, including those on military bases. It's ridiculous that we didn't shoot it down before it came into our air space.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
pilot222 2/3/2023 12:07:58 AM (No. 1393438)
Hey Mi-Li, did your commie buddies call and tell you the balloon was coming like you promised to tell them when the nukes were coming. Good God, commie traitors everywhere
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mifla 2/3/2023 4:41:44 AM (No. 1393476)
What's next, Russian troops taking Alaska back?
What are you going to do Joe, order that Chinese food be taken off the WH menu?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
5 handicap 2/3/2023 5:37:20 AM (No. 1393501)
The wholly incompetent "Gob of Spit" Mark Milley says "let it be", exactly as any CCP Special Agent would say! How did that garbage ever get close to an Army Uniform!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 2/3/2023 6:52:38 AM (No. 1393524)
FTA: “Instances of this activity have been observed over the past several years, including prior to this administration,” the official said.
That is ambiguous. These weasels will say anything.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 2/3/2023 7:17:31 AM (No. 1393545)
Shoot it down and drag the remains to China for the meeting.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TCloud 2/3/2023 7:37:02 AM (No. 1393558)
They can play Biden and Democrats like an Old Fiddle!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
broken01 2/3/2023 7:45:35 AM (No. 1393564)
I have a question for ALL of the Never Trumpers, Trump haters, RINOs, and democrats residing in my beloved country. Do you think that the corrupt, racist, arrogant, haughty CHICOMs would pull this BS if President Donald John Trump (PDJT) was still sitting behind the Resolute Desk? My answer is no in Hades they would not!
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Note that the First Mandarin Biden has decided to do NOTHING about our being spied on. He is a treasonous dog and should be treated as such
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Clinger 2/3/2023 7:53:54 AM (No. 1393571)
FTA: "where it was spotted by a civilian on Wednesday" interesting. We didn't see this thing until it was spotted somewhere over the Billings area. Where was this thing launched? If it floated it's way from China how is it nobody saw it until it made its way to Montana? Or is it more likely that a military surveillance act was launched from our own soil or perhaps Canada? Is that not an act of war?
Shoot the damned thing down, this is war. Try to pierce it and bring it down gently for analysis but bring it down now. Hey Elon what you up to today, got a minute?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
paral04 2/3/2023 8:05:53 AM (No. 1393590)
Shoot it down!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
msjena 2/3/2023 8:06:58 AM (No. 1393591)
Who was the first President to warn us about the danger of China?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Mad Dog 2/3/2023 8:08:36 AM (No. 1393594)
When you have the POTUS in your pocket, the CCP can do as they please.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Toodles3956 2/3/2023 8:10:50 AM (No. 1393597)
My 1st instinct would be to shoot it down but then I started thinking of what could be inside of it. A new strain of a virus?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bpl40 2/3/2023 8:13:43 AM (No. 1393601)
Milley/Austin were waiting for permission from 'higher authority' (in Beijing) to shoot it down?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 2/3/2023 8:23:58 AM (No. 1393610)
Yeah, it may be carrying something that is not very nice. Let it drift back over chicomsville, then shoot it down.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
planetgeo 2/3/2023 8:57:26 AM (No. 1393640)
Inquiring minds want to know if the top Chinese general called our General Milli-Vanilli to warn us ahead of time and pinky-swear that they had no bad intentions.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 2/3/2023 9:02:54 AM (No. 1393647)
If they're smart - - the Chicoms will not try to mess with Tough Tony Blinken.
They're cruisin' for a bruisin' if they do. Gee I'm glad Tough Tony is on our side!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
HonestDon 2/3/2023 9:11:38 AM (No. 1393664)
It's apparent that Xi is intimidated by Blinken. Isn't it???
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/3/2023 9:14:23 AM (No. 1393670)
Where was it launched from? How can a Balloon get from China to the US without power?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
cor-vet 2/3/2023 9:16:09 AM (No. 1393675)
Can we send one back over China and see what their reaction is? I think I can guess what that would be.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
red1066 2/3/2023 9:22:14 AM (No. 1393689)
From the video, it's hard to tell if there was any payload attached to that balloon in order to spy on anything. It looked more like a weather balloon with no means of control except the winds. So, if it was a spy balloon, it was a pretty weak attempt. The Japanese tried the same thing in WWII by flying balloons with explosives attached to them to try and explode them over U.S. cities. I don't think that worked out very well either.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
jimincalif 2/3/2023 9:22:35 AM (No. 1393690)
Hunter has become politically toxic, so the Chinese needed a new way to deliver crates of cash to Brandon.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
smokincol 2/3/2023 9:32:13 AM (No. 1393705)
just the mere fact that such a maneuver was made by the Chicoms is embarrassing enough but .... the tepid response from our military leaders is even more embarrassing - are there no more REAL men left in the military, replaced by jelly spined Generals and SecDef's who are and never have been real leaders?
all the blame lies at the feet of jobiden and his gang of incompetent and dedicated insurgents within our own government
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/3/2023 9:40:44 AM (No. 1393720)
The Biden crew is so full of crap by claiming that if they were to shoot down the Chinese Communist surveillance balloon over the State of Montana that it might endanger US citizens on the ground. Montana is an ultra rural State with a very small population where you can drive for many miles without ever come across another person. It’s much more likely that the balloon would land in the Little Big Horn National Battlefield then land on any people.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 2/3/2023 9:50:47 AM (No. 1393734)
Another loser defense official, “Currently, we assess that this balloon has limited additive value from an intelligence collection perspective. But we are taking steps nevertheless to protect against foreign intelligence collection of sensitive information,” the defense official said.
The CCP collects and tracks data on their domestic population of over 1 billion people. But, no worries. It's just a signals capturing project. Don't worry, they can't do anything with it.
This is why our nation is doomed. The theater of fighting back from the brink is entertaining, but we passed the tipping point long ago.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
moebellini3 2/3/2023 10:27:06 AM (No. 1393764)
Talk about gonads. This Xi Jinping guy has'em. Think about it. Sending a freakin balloon right over our country. Talk about testing another governments resolve.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Zigrid 2/3/2023 10:41:12 AM (No. 1393777)
The chi/coms think they can do anything they want and biden won't care...he's got his ice cream cones and a very cushy life ...no wonder he thinks he will run in 2024....I recall when the Russians put up the sputnik capsule to monitor our defenses...same panic from Americans...but WE finished the job by putting up our own capsule and then WE went to the moon....don't underestimate America....it was a "in your face" stunt...and Washington rolled over and went to sleep....
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/3/2023 11:28:38 AM (No. 1393810)
Anybody remember Gary Powers and the U-2 spy plane incident? Late 50's cold war era.
We were flying high altitude planes over Russia until one was shot down. Russia rubbed our noses in it by putting Powers and the remaining parts on display for the world. It should be shot down, or somehow captured, and put on display. Maybe some people will wake up to the danger.
The government didn't even tell us about the incendiary balloons Japan was dropping on us in WW II.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Wexfordcounty 2/3/2023 11:40:02 AM (No. 1393815)
Well versed on how clueless the Biden Administration is, I'm surprised the Chinese haven't claimed it's Philias Fogg & Passepartout passing over us.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
NorthStar 2/3/2023 12:35:28 PM (No. 1393864)
Where is a good ol boy his biplane and some fireworks? The nation is calling!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
udanja99 2/3/2023 12:51:58 PM (No. 1393884)
#12, dogs are loyal to a fault. Let’s call Biden what he truly is - a treasonous cockroach.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
danu 2/3/2023 1:09:32 PM (No. 1393901)
loads of red hot air , bat-winged monkeys to follow
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
bighambone 2/3/2023 1:29:31 PM (No. 1393915)
We will probably find out in the future that an American guy named Hunter is on the Board of Directors of the Chinese Communist entity that operates that balloon.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/3/2023 1:46:38 PM (No. 1393937)
I knew Blinken would find a way to chicken out of this trip and China provided him with a lifeboat. This inept administration is good at two things, avoiding conflict with countries who are walking all over us and lording it over the American people, the ones who pay their salaries. If China didn't already know that the United States is a pushover, they know it now.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Luandir 2/3/2023 1:47:22 PM (No. 1393938)
If Blinkin' had any cojones [pause for mass expression of derision] - the trip would be off. Instead, he will go furrow his brow in public and grovel in private.
As #28 said, there is effectively ZERO chance of this hitting anyone on the ground if it were to be shot down. We are leaving it up there - and it is more than a simple, drifting "balloon," but clearly an airship which can maneuver as commanded - because we choose to permit it to continue its mission.
How can this be less than treason?
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Strike3 2/3/2023 1:58:33 PM (No. 1393946)
#21, you can certainly pick out the courageous leaders from the crowd. With Roy Blunt and Blinken, you are running two for two.
#32, something good came out of the U-2 shootdown. It prompted us to develop the SR-71 Blackbird and then we could say to the Russians, "Catch this, MF."
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Penney 2/3/2023 2:16:58 PM (No. 1393969)
First the Biden dem pols render America's sovereign borders useless in direct conflict with USA Immigration Law and now the Biden gang has allowed even the sky above open to Chinese invasion, in addition to the American land they have already purchased!!! ...Biden and his dem cronies betray their oaths of office and thus daily prove their dangerous intentions.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
mc squared 2/3/2023 2:29:46 PM (No. 1393984)
#23: prevailing westerly winds travel from Asia to North America. It how the Japanese dropped incendiary bombs on our west coast in the Big One. It could also have been launched from a ship. I venture that if it's free-flying, they launched several in hopes that at least some would show them the goodies.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
TCloud 2/3/2023 2:47:11 PM (No. 1393995)
Oh My poor aching back!
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 2/3/2023 2:57:38 PM (No. 1394003)
I'd find the biggest Winnie The Pooh balloon I could find and release it over CHY-NAH
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
ScooterTrash 2/3/2023 3:48:13 PM (No. 1394040)
I hope the reason for the delay in shooting down the balloon is that they are working on a way to recover it intact. It could be a great chance to look at their technology.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
MickTurn 2/3/2023 5:31:36 PM (No. 1394102)
I think #17 has a point. It would not be beyond the Chicom's to have the balloon loaded with a new strain of Covid, made JUST FOR US and very deadly! It could be dispensing that Virus a bit at a time. Let's see if an outbreak happens downwind of the Balloon in a few days/weeks. If that is what the Chicoms are doing it's an ACT OF WAR, just like the first round of Covid when they sent their Wuhan infected ALL OVER THE WORLD but no one from Wuhan could go anywhere else inside CHINA...that to me was the intentional spreading of the Virus!
Of course Joey Perv Biden wouldn't do a thing!
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
mean Gene 2/3/2023 5:41:03 PM (No. 1394107)
Joe, pop our balloon and we will spill the beans on your corruption. Think it over.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Agent Orange 2/3/2023 5:52:20 PM (No. 1394118)
Is there anyone watching the store? The idiot we have at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave seems to think it’s okay for an enemy of the State to fly whatever over our country.
I have a question for the guys in the clown car that are tasked to protect us from evil. What if this spy balloon is loaded with an EMP devise that can render all things that need a computer chip to run, DOA? In less than 30 days, most of the former USA ill be back to the ‘Stone Age.’ Not many will survive the attack. But that’s okay, we’ll just keep an eye it, so when it does go off, we will know who to blame.
Or an aero spraying system to spray the bread basket of our country with some deadly pathogen that would affect our crop yields, or worse yet, kills all plant life that comes in contact with the pathogen?
And don’t forget boys and girls, this enemy craft can be carrying the military grade CV19 that WILL kill everyone that comes in contact with it. So, the Jacka**es in DC see no down side to this insanity?
Either this administration fixes this debacle now, before we end up back in the 17th century, or our military take matters into their own hands, and shoot it down. Or have our military gone completely ‘WOKE?’
MSgt USAF (ret)
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
RWPollock 2/3/2023 7:02:29 PM (No. 1394147)
Cause civilian damage a reason not to shoot it down-horseshit!!!! Hunter and the rest of the Biden family mafia are paying back favors to China. China is assessing our capabilities. China is assessing abilities to retaliate against China when they invade Taiwan
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
volksford 2/3/2023 7:23:45 PM (No. 1394160)
I say give it the Hindenburg treatment .
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
Faithfully 2/3/2023 8:16:55 PM (No. 1394183)
Spraying Covid2?
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
rochow 2/3/2023 9:22:33 PM (No. 1394237)
Xi wanted to demonstrate what a giant finger looks like in bidet's face and let the entire world know how they are laughing at the US!
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
AIRFORCE1 2/3/2023 9:43:15 PM (No. 1394252)
We have President and a Joint Chiefs of staff who appear to be incompetent to say the least. This will turn into another screw up like Afghanistan.
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