Well, that was one of the odder news-items of recent years: a Chinese balloon drifting over the continental U.S. while we all just sort of gaped at it — as it if were some wandering heavenly body, like a comet or Oumuamua, rather than an floating intruder sent into our airspace by our most formidable strategic rival.
What the hell happened here? At first we were told that it was actually quite a difficult thing to shoot down — too high up for planes, and built with a “multicellular” design that meant projectiles would pass right through it without much effect (which, if true, means we have been wasting time and money building bombers and missiles, and should have been concentrating all this time on invulnerable high-altitude Zeppelins). Then the explanation was that it would be dangerous to shoot down because the mysterious payload might fall on somebody (which seems unlikely given the vast and virtually uninhabited Western expanses it had traversed). Finally we did in fact shoot the thing down over the Atlantic (or so we’re told; it’s hard to know what, if anything, to believe these days).
It was a strange story all round, and I doubt we’ll ever really know the whole truth of it.
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There is more to this story than we know and we only know what those in DC have said…WH or Pentagon or pols taking their usual places in the argument. I suspect all that do know are happy to let this play that way and by Monday morning it will all die down. We the people have been lied to and deceived so much post 9-11 that I trust little coming out of DC, at least through the first couple of story lines..
With all our defense monitoring in place, radar, satellites, etc., the powers that be must have know about this issue many days ago and well before this device ever entered US airspace. But, yet the balloon was allow to sail clear across the entire continent without intervention?
The amount of gaslighting directed at the public is just astounding.
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Glad you’re back safe and sound. Isn’t where you visited in Thailand near the location they filmed the Bond flick “The Man With the Golden Gun”?
OT: I don’t know if you (and others) are aware of this new magazine Malcolm, but I thought I’d mention it: The Asylum https://asylummagazine.ca/ (yes, I know). It features the usual suspects like BAP and other luminaries of the neo-Action Francaise cadre. Either you’ll be intrigued or repulsed, or if you’re like me something of both.
I should qualify the above: the magazine also has thinkers like Michael Anton and Lord Conrad Black, who are more traditionalist conservatives but currently outside of what’s termed Conservative Inc.
Thanks, Jason – I’ve actually had an issue of that magazine sitting on my computer since before going away, and hadn’t got round to reading it yet. Will do so soon.