The Spy Balloon

The Spy Balloon 

 

 

HEY! At 1139 today, my time, an American F-16 shot down a Chinese spy balloon while it was over the Atlantic Ocean. After it had transversed our entire nation! It was ninety minutes ago.

The balloon and the shootdown were both acts of war. Everyone is pretending they weren't.

No reaction yet except that our SecDef cancelled a trip to China. JoeyB went to Camp David. That’ll teach those dirty dogs!

 

Our enemies operate against us with deadly force and intent. We suffer loss of life, loss of sovereignty, and loss of critical military and infrastructure information. There is no risk for them to do so. Nothing. 

Hint: China's map of your home town is better than yours. Same for our missile sites.

 

We knew the spy balloon was approaching the Aleutians hours before it crossed into American airspace. We were ready to destroy it. We did nothing. It was on TV!

It proceeded to slowly float all the way to the Atlantic Ocean, east of South Carolina, likely gathering information on our bases, missile sites and cities all along the way. Ballon crashes. Mission accomplished. 

We waited. We had decision makers who could have ordered a shootdown over the north Pacific. They didn’t have the courage to pull the trigger.

Hey, generals at all levels. It was a freaking act of war! Your only job is to protect us! You failed!

F’God’s sake, don’t wake JoeyB! He needs his sleep. In order to make difficult decisions. Uh, like this one? 

It was early in the morning when we figured it out. I suspect that no one wanted to wake JoeyB. If they did, he would have to make a strategic decision. Early in the morning. Before coffee and porridge. Not a good time for that. And not a good look.

 

JoeyB’s staff was packing for a lazy weekend at Camp David. He does that a lot when there are national emergencies. Shhh. Don’t wake the prez.

 

There is a historical parallel. June 6, 1944. No one wanted to wake the Fuhrer to tell him that the D-Day invasion had begun. No one wanted to risk being sent to the eastern front and death at Russian hands just for waking the Fuhrer at the wrong time. Shhh. Don’t wake him.

 

No, today isn’t our D-Day. But it could be part of the planning. Time to wake up.