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News Forum - US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon
I have very mixed emotions about Ukraine. While I emphasize with the country being invaded, I am not sure why America always has to have a dog in every fight. The USA went down similar paths in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan only to expend billions of dollars, and in the other instances thousands of lives. Now in terms of tensions I disagree. Placating an adversary by allowing them to breach your borders is not a good strategy for building peace through strength. Such lack of action only emboldens them to try future and potentially more agressive incursions. What possibly is the purpose of NORAD if it is not to give early warning to unidentified incoming aircraft, and preventing their incursion over US territory. One thing is for sure, irrepective of any political fallout, you don't let the balloon go unimpeded for 8 days allowing it to finish its mission and then destroy it. Do you think the Chinese would still be happy that their equipment was still destroyed because it was 8 days later. Seems like the fact they "may" be irritated was just kicking the can down the road 8 days. -
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News Forum - US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon
I think this whole thing is a media beat up about nothing of consequence while also being a sad indicator of how poor the communication is between China and the US. Imagine if it was something serious or life threatening such as a new Spice Girls album sent to pollute the airwaves? The horror!- 1
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News Forum - US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon
Really! Highly unlikely that you would fire a missile filled with monitoring equipment and how would you know what it had. I also think the analogy with Gary Powers is also flawed I’m afraid. Powers was shot down in 1960 when high altitude aerial reconnaissance was the main method for spying. Today, China has multiple satellites that can spy on any country in the world. The risks of a high altitude ballon gathering vital information is far less of a threat overall compared to the situation in 1960 of a U2. Im not disputing that it would have been better to have shot the balloon down as it entered US airspace. I’m just saying that with tensions running high and there always being a risk benefit calculation to be done, perhaps delaying such a provocative move wasn’t all bad? Even having shot it down on the East coast, this has resulted in the visit by Blinken being postponed. We need cool heads at the moment. Let’s get Putin sorted and then move on to Xi if he makes a move on Taiwan. Assuming of course you aren’t one of those Republicans who thinks the US shouldn’t intervene in the Ukraine conflict! -
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News Forum - US military shoots down Chinese spy balloon
I disagree, there is nothing to say the missle was armed with anything. Or for that matter that while flying over the USA it was targeting anything. It could just be laden with surveillance equipment. The point being at what point does the incursion over USA airspace warrant action be it a missle, airplance, balloon or kite launched by a foreign power. When Gary Powers flew his U2 aircraft over Russia, they shot it down because they didn't want it spying on them. Whether by balloon or plane Biden should not have permitted it to go unimpeded for 8 days essentially allowing it to complete its mission before destroying it. There is no "spin" that can justify that and certainly the notion that during its travel over 3,700 km of U.S. airspace there were no areas that were totally uninhabited is just plain false. Years ago the airplane carrying Payne Stewart the PGA Tour pro malfunctioned and everyone on board was dead. The plane on autopilot continued. The military shadowed the jet until it crashed into South Dakota. The military was on alert to potentially shoot down the airplane if it threatened a population center. This was a a Lear Jet not a balloon and there was no such concern that the military if called upon could not destroy it traveling at hundreds of kilometers per hour in a manner that debris would not fall on people on the ground. -
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News Forum - Wild boar creates chaos in Pattaya, still on the loose
The poor man was killed by his "pet wild boar"? How can a "pet" be "wild"? The terms are mutually exclusive.
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