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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$hit!  What do I panic buy in a situation like this? Milk, toilet paper, white lab rats to feed and appease the alien overlords?[/quote]

I used to go for wine and cookie dough, but since middle age has caught up with me I guess I'll be healthy and eat kale and lift weights until the aliens invade or the next balloon sprinkles who knows what.

Do you think even Biden understands what is happening. I mean I voted for him, but I have been down the dementia road with parents/inlaws and I can only imagine what convos with him are like as he gets updates.[/quote]
Your last statement is ridiculous. He is listening to the experts around him and following their advice. That’s what effective presidents do. [/quote]

Agree - he surrounds himself with qualified intelligent advisors and listens to them. That is solid leadership. [/quote]

Qualified intelligent?  I think that statement is relative to the observer.

I'm not a Trump supporter but letting the balloons fly as long as they did was, imho, a strategic military and intelligence blunder.  There is only one purpose for these types of balloons.  My personal thoughts about how the WH, IC and Pentagon handled the balloons?  [b][i]You f'ed up and could've "collected your intel" after it was grounded.[/i][/b]

Google this theme about China - "if every corrupt official were arrested, there would be no one left to run it" or "corrupt PLA generals in China". You have to ask yourself, even if Xi isn't on the Russian crazy train, how many of his generals or 88 million CCP members have been bought off, and is Putin calling in his chips?  Remember that if you're a corrupt Chinese official, is it better to outed by the Russians as corrupt and be jailed or killed by Xi's CCP, or feed intel to your "friends" with the little red envelopes and hookers?  Not your problem, right?

Again, I'm not a Republican anymore and not a Trumper, but Biden is not handling this well.  Ironically, it's precisely because the U.S. has relatively weak anti-corruption laws and enforcement, that we're in the situation we're in now politically.  I'm just not convinced that Biden has everything under control until more action is taken.

Kamala needs to travel the country for the next three weeks.  Call it a "road show" or "campaign trail".  Whatever.  Just get her out of DC and physically separated from Biden for a while, just in case I'm right about calling in the chips.  If I'm wrong, no harm - you just started campaigning early, right?  ;)[/quote]

Please wow us with your grasp of intelligence collection. Getting a chance to observe an asset like this in flight is a unique opportunity to learn about it, an opportunity that would've been wasted by blowing it out of the sky with a surface-to-air missile just because a bunch of rubes in flyover country believe all the b.s. they hear on Fox News.[/quote]

Then let me wow you with this concept - intel not acted upon is useless.  And it works both ways.  Letting the balloon gather and (presumably - since assume it would be difficult to jam) phone home to watch and learn what intel it's sending means that it is Mission Accomplished.  That's it.  It's done.  It's over.  They won't need that balloon anymore.

If that information is used to make accurate targeting of anything / anyone; guess what.  That's called an "intelligence failure".

Hope I'm wrong.  After all, I don't "grasp" intelligence collection at all.  But I'm glad someone had their "unique opportunity to learn".[/quote]

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