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U.S. Military Finally Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon

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By Yantis Green, Feb 4, 2023
 

WASHINGTON – After waiting days while the Chinese Spy Balloon crossed the entire United States accomplishing its mission of surveilling sensitive military sites from one coast to the other, the administration finally shot it down Saturday.  

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin said the President "gave his authorization" to take out the balloon "as soon as the mission could be accomplished without undue risk to American lives under the balloon's path.

"The balloon, which was being used by the [People's Republic of China] in an attempt to surveil strategic sites in the continental United States, was brought down above U.S. territorial waters," Austin said, adding that military commanders came up with options "to take down the balloon safely over our territorial waters, while closely monitoring its path and intelligence collection activities."

Austin said the takedown was coordinated with the Canadian government.

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Now the republicansn will say something about Biuden causing unneccessary tension with china or some other made up outrage. Proving once again, that republicans are pure reactionary and will always criticize anything about American citizens they dont like, which is most Americans.

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CGM5, Sun, 02/05/2023 - 09:30

If Trump had done all the things biden has done (his border disaster, the Afghanistan disaster, China ties, his boy hunter, letting china thumb their noses at us by flying their craft over the USA for almost a week and no telling what else, how many times would Trump have been impeached already??? It's ok because biden is a democrat!

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More right wing domestic terrorism,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/06/maryland-power-grid-neonazi-brandon-russell/

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"Pentagon says it had an ‘awareness gap’ that led to failure to detect 3 Chinese balloons under Trump"

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/politics/pentagon-balloon-monday/index.html

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