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An Air Force F-22 Raptor was scrambled to shoot down an errant Chinese weather balloon over US airspace on Saturday, putting an end to days of drama and confusion as Americans helplessly watched the alleged “spy” craft float aimlessly over the country. Beijing slammed Washington for attacking the “civilian airship.”

Republicans are fuming with the Biden administration’s delayed response to popping China’s weather balloon, with at least one lawmaker calling for the president and vice president to resign in disgrace.

“The catastrophic Chinese Spy Balloon Spectacle clearly threatened American families from Alaska to my home community in South Carolina and confirms President Biden and Vice President Harris should resign,” House Armed Services Committee member Joe Wilson of South Carolina wrote in a multi-part Twitter thread Saturday night.

“My call for their resignation was valid in August 2021 due to the surrender and disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan, creating a safe haven for terrorists to attack American families,” Wilson wrote, listing off his outstanding beefs with the Biden administration. “Resignation now is further reinforced as their open border policies have allowed hundreds of identified terrorists into America to commit mass murder, the lawmaker fumed.

A few pro-Biden media personalities rushed to defend the White House, with infamous Russiagater Keith Olbermann calling Wilson an “a**clown” and suggesting the lawmaker should “stop, resign,” and “leave the country.”
However, other lawmakers, even including a few Democrats, similarly piled on Biden over his perceived late response to the incident. The Chinese unmanned airship reportedly entered the US air defense zone off Alaska on January 28, and proceeded east and south, traveling over Idaho and Montana, including over military bases which host US nuclear missile silos.

“Why was this allowed to go clear across the country for so many days? You know, you look at this, national security is one of the biggest things that any country can do. It is a core function of government,” GOP Congressman Russell Fry complained.

Representative Mike Ezell, a Republican on the House Committee on Homeland Security, called the White House’s decision “to allow this Chinese spy balloon to peacefully float across the United States, especially near major military bases…a joke,” and said the US “cannot continue to demonstrate weakness in the face of Chinese aggression.”

Andrew Garbarino, another member of the Homeland Security Committee, also attacked the administration. “Not only was the Homeland Security Committee not informed of this CCP [Chinese Communist Party, ed.] provocation before it broke on the news, but it has since come to light that officials were monitoring the balloon before it entered US airspace and could have been shot down over the water before ever reaching our shores. This was the CCP testing their boundaries and President Biden failed in his response,” Garbarino said.

Senate Arms Services Committee Republican Roger Wicker suggested the balloon’s trip across the US was a “clear” indication “that standard protocol for defense of US airspace was ignored,” and accused Biden of trying to “hide this incident from the American people from the start.”

Hawkish Texas Republican Representative Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, slammed the administration over its “embarrassing display of weakness.”

Congressional Democrats did their best to defend the president, with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer expressing "strong condemnation" of “President Xi [Jinping’s] brazen incursion into American airspace,” and commending Biden’s “leadership in taking down the Chinese balloon over water to ensure safety for all Americans.”

“All of us who serve here spend time and care on national security. It is possible to express concerns about surveillance and other issues without the Chinese Communist Party without trying to create unnecessary panic for political gain,” Democratic Representative Don Beyer of Virginia tweeted.

“All of us who serve here spend time and care on national security. It is possible to express concerns about surveillance and other issues without the Chinese Communist Party without trying to create unnecessary panic for political gain,” Democratic Representative Don Beyer of Virginia tweeted.

However, Montana Senator Jon Tester, a Democrat, joined his GOP colleagues in demanding “real answers” from Biden, dubbing the balloon story “a clear threat” to US national security. “I will be pulling people before my committee to get real answers on how this happened, and how we can prevent it from ever happening again,” he said. Tester is chairman of a Senate defense panel in charge of the Pentagon budget.

Meanwhile, Chinese social media users mocked Americans’ overreaction to the incident, asking why the US was “making a big issue over nothing,” christening the airship “the wandering balloon,” and suggesting “the US should respect" it. “The Lantern Festival is around the corner. The balloon is actually a sky lantern we sent over to wish Americans a happy Lantern Festival,” one user quipped. “Who cares if Antony Blinken will come or not? America always bills itself as No.1 in the world but it got spooked by just a balloon,” another wrote.

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There headache

Dumb country.
Imagine the fuss over an ordinary balloon. How will these ones cope in a real war?

No wonder Vietnamese farmers destroyed them.

Imagine russia colonized nigeria

Chaos14:
Imagine russia colonized nigeria

So what are you insinuating?

Masterviolence:

So what are you insinuating?

I'm just thinking about the discipline that would have been in this country.

Chaos14:
I'm just thinking about the discipline that would have been in this country.

I concur, but there's always a bitter part of colonialism.

Except, one have mature and insightful leadership.

Chaos14:
Imagine russia colonized nigeria

Most agitators for independence would have been shipped to Siberia
Political correctness is not in Russia dictionary

tommy589:


Most agitators for independence would have been shipped to Siberia
Political correctness is not in Russia dictionary

Canada was colonized by Britain, the indigenous people were oppressed, exposed to genocide and subjugated.
The western colonizers displaced the indigenous population to become the major demographic and the land owners became a minority. The colonizers and their descendants refused to go back Europe.
The inhumane treatment of the indigenous people of Canada continues till this day. They don't even have clean drinking water, they're impoverished by govt created barriers and obstacles.

FreddieGray:

Canada was colonized by Britain, the indigenous people were oppressed, exposed to genocide and subjugated.
The western colonizers displaced the indigenous population to become the major demographic and the land owners became a minority. The colonizers and their descendants refused to go back Europe.
The inhumane treatment of the indigenous people of Canada continues till this day. They don't even have clean drinking water, they're impoverished by govt created barriers and obstacles.

The westerners tried the same thing (apartheid...it has similarities to Nazism) in South Africa but the South Africans (with aid from Russia) resisted and prevailed over Western sponsored/ supported apartheid/Nazism in South Africa.

tommy589:


The whites (colonizers) still own over 70% of SA land and wealth

I won't dilly-dally with you on the veracity of the statistic you've provided.
You honestly believe the statistics you provided would have been better under apartheid South Africa where the minority white foreigners sought to lord over the majority black southern Africans?
The apartheid in South Africa is similar to what is obtainable in today's geopolitics. The minority West (led by it's feudal lord, the US) seeks to dictate to the rest of the whole world (a continuous manifestation of their neocolonialist mentality).
In apartheid South Africa, there was segregation.
Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (lit. 'boss-hood' or 'boss-ship'), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically through minoritarianism by the nation's dominant minority white population.[4] According to this system of social stratification, white citizens had the highest status, followed by Indians and Coloureds, then black Africans.

Broadly speaking, apartheid was delineated into petty apartheid, which entailed the segregation of public facilities and social events, and grand apartheid, which dictated housing and employment opportunities by race.

During the 1970s and 1980s, internal resistance to apartheid became increasingly violent, prompting brutal crackdowns by the National Party ruling government and protracted sectarian violence that left thousands dead or in detention.

Between 1987 and 1993, the National Party entered into bilateral negotiations with the African National Congress (ANC), the leading anti-apartheid political movement, for ending segregation and introducing majority rule. In 1990, prominent ANC figures such as Nelson Mandela were released from prison. Apartheid legislation was repealed on 17 June 1991leading to multiracial elections in April 1994.

FreddieGray:

The westerners tried the same thing (apartheid...it has similarities to Nazism) in South Africa but the South Africans (with aid from Russia) resisted and prevailed over Western sponsored/ supported apartheid/Nazism in South Africa.

The whites (colonizers) still own over 70% of SA land and wealth