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Biden’s Ballooning Foreign-Policy Blunders

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Posted By: Garnet, 2/6/2023 1:18:46 AM

Last Friday, just before President Joe Biden left for another of his many long weekends away from the White House, reporters vainly asked him about the Chinese surveillance balloon that had been meandering around in U.S. airspace since Jan. 28. Our commander-in-chief offered no response beyond a smirk and a vacant stare. The “spy balloon,” as it has been dubbed by the media, is a good metaphor for the Biden administration’s foreign policy — lighter than air and potentially dangerous.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: thefield 2/6/2023 1:42:34 AM (No. 1396118)
Massive house cleaning needed at state department and pentagon.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: caljeepgirl 2/6/2023 3:01:55 AM (No. 1396131)
Beyond the pale. At this point, nothing short of a complete re-build will save us! Maybe the time for a constitutional convention is finally upon us.....
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Reply 3 - Posted by: mifla 2/6/2023 4:41:01 AM (No. 1396152)
We are projecting not only weakness, but also incompetence, and our enemies are taking note.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: F15 Gork 2/6/2023 6:45:24 AM (No. 1396209)
I bet we sold the Chinese the helium that kept this thing airborne.....
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Reply 5 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 2/6/2023 7:08:57 AM (No. 1396223)
Lame Duck has assumed his role a Lame Peking Duck. Following Xi's orders Mao's Great Balloon was allowed to navigate the continental US, spying on whatever they wished to see. Well done Lame Peking Duck. Well done.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: czechlist 2/6/2023 10:11:19 AM (No. 1396357)
Reports say the missile used was a sidewinder which is heat seeking. The hottest object (target) would have been the solar panel array which was hit and appears to have been destroyed. A radar missile would have easily hit the much larger balloon envelope with the possibility of saving the electronics package. A short gun burst may have punctured the envelope possibly resulting in a slow descent. Did the administration not want to recover the instrumentation? Did they kniw it was only a weather balloon? Was this all just a distraction? From what?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bighambone 2/6/2023 10:53:46 AM (No. 1396405)
The problem with Biden turning almost every foreign policy situation into a fiasco is that Biden’s leftist, progressive, and socialist Democrat constituencies could care less about foreign policy and national security issues, with Biden after forty years as a corrupt liberal Democrat DC machine career “UniParty” lawyer-politician recognizing those facts, along with the fact that a good part of those leftist Democrat constituency groups could not even find China on a map, much less point out why China must be a top potential international advisory of the USA. Instead those constituency groups are pleased as punch that Biden has been following a domestic leftist and socialist Democrat political agenda that includes Biden and the leftist Democrats sending them as much federal money as possible.
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