Opinion by Linda Genzel

The compromised coward in the Oval Office shot down the Chinese Spy Balloon this afternoon, approximately a week after it first infiltrated American Sovereign Airspace, days before the nation was even notified about it.
The damage is done, and the CCP’s mission is accomplished because the Chinese Spy Balloon was permitted to loiter around up there, crisscrossing the entire continental United States for days on end, surveilling, gathering, and delivering information to Beijing in real time!
What does this tell our allies? Moreover, what does this tell our adversaries? There needs to be a response to this egregious violation of American Sovereignty, not just in kind, but rather a significant, impactful response, because there are massive geopolitical implications here!
Make no mistake here, America lost to China here because President Xi not only now knows that the CCP can waltz right on in, breach our Sovereign Airspace, steal our military intel information, and even possibly fly in balloons capable of carrying, G-d forbid, nuclear, chemical, and bioweapons to unload on us, and not expect any real response, at least not from this President, that is, because Joe Biden is nothing more than a pathetic mouthpiece without a backbone!
If the Biden Administration were genuinely concerned about the “safety of Americans on the ground” while weighing whether or not to down this balloon, they would never have even permitted it to enter, let alone come within miles of our airspace, to begin with!
What or where the hell was NORAD, out to lunch? It’s their job to ensure that our adversaries can’t do things like this.
It’s a lie to say that they had to wait until it was over water to take it down because, according to General Jack Keane and General Kellogg, in their rather lofty military careers and experience, there is a minimal debris field when shooting down balloons, ergo this balloon could have been taken down last week when it first entered American Airspace over Alaskas scarcely populated mostly uninhabited territory, or over Montana’s vast open empty prairies.
If China were to attack the United States it isn't going to use a balloon to do it. These people that want to out hawk the Biden administration are nuts. We are ruled by idiots. A journalist that has any sense of critical thinking wouldn't even start with the premise fed to them by our government that this was a "spy" balloon. We don't know if was a "spy" balloon or not. Maybe it is but to assume so is just bad reporting. Why must we make China our enemy? Is it to just feed our thirst for militarism and hegemony?
That balloon went from one end of the country to the other.. surly we all know that info was collected and transmitted as if went. China Joe's biggest payday yet!!
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