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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #150 on: February 04, 2023, 03:31:48 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on February 04, 2023, 06:50:22 am
Considering Elon Musk has the people who could make sure nothing China put in space would last more than a few orbits, I think they'd be best off to think long and hard about that.

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It seems a surprising number of our politicians don't do any thinking until the deposit slips are delivered. The money talks,and tells them what to do.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #151 on: February 04, 2023, 03:41:12 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on February 04, 2023, 03:14:11 pm

The Ukraine War has put the brakes on that.  China is witnessing the failures of the Russian Army against a bunch of "drug addicts and nazis" (as Putin describes them).  And China knows their military operates the same way as Russia's. Where before they might have tried to take Taiwan, now they are making a more honest assessment of their capabilities and discovering their shortcomings.

Over history, China has been able to amass huge fleets of ships.  But these fleets have never achieved any significant conquests by invasion.


We've all seen Chinese troops marching by the thousands in perfect synchronization...angle of head/face...angle of bayonets.  They march as one organism.

The USA military is incapable of even drumming that mentality into the typical recruit. 

It's tantamount to Barishnikov vs. Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy.   happy77
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #152 on: February 04, 2023, 03:41:13 pm »
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #153 on: February 04, 2023, 03:57:15 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on February 04, 2023, 03:41:12 pm

We've all seen Chinese troops marching by the thousands in perfect synchronization...angle of head/face...angle of bayonets.  They march as one organism.

They also die as one organism.  Over half a million Chinese casualties in Korea from marching thousands directly into enemy fire.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #154 on: February 04, 2023, 04:02:33 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on February 04, 2023, 03:57:15 pm
They also die as one organism.  Over half a million Chinese casualties in Korea from marching thousands directly into enemy fire.

Saw a keeper post the other day...

Everybody should hurry and get their children to read/speak Mandarin.

...and the very first words: "Please don't shoot my parents!"
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #155 on: February 04, 2023, 04:08:43 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on February 04, 2023, 03:41:12 pm

We've all seen Chinese troops marching by the thousands in perfect synchronization...angle of head/face...angle of bayonets.  They march as one organism.

The USA military is incapable of even drumming that mentality into the typical recruit. 

It's tantamount to Barishnikov vs. Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy.   happy77


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I think the British proved that wearing red and marching in a straight line went out of style with the invention of water-cooled machine guns.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #156 on: February 04, 2023, 04:12:30 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on February 04, 2023, 03:57:15 pm
They also die as one organism.  Over half a million Chinese casualties in Korea from marching thousands directly into enemy fire.

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That is a win/win situation for them. They either gain new crop land and industries,or they have fewer mouths to feed.

You can be SURE that none of the children of the leadership are marching in those straight lines.

BTW,not even all the soldiers marching in those straight lines are armed. The ones in the rear ranks march into  battle unarmed,and are supposed to become armed by picking up the weapons dropped by the soldiers in the lead.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #157 on: February 04, 2023, 04:12:38 pm »
Quote from: sneakypete on February 04, 2023, 04:08:43 pm

@DCPatriot

I think the British proved that wearing red and marching in a straight line went out of style with the invention of water-cooled machine guns.
Actually, the Pennsylvania and Kentucky rifles in the hands of folks who used them for defense and to provide meat proved the undoing of the British marching in lines (especially when their officers were targeted).
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #158 on: February 04, 2023, 04:16:54 pm »
Quote from: sneakypete on February 04, 2023, 04:08:43 pm

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I think the British proved that wearing red and marching in a straight line went out of style with the invention of water-cooled machine guns.

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Come now... you know full well I'm speaking of self-discipline and achieving absolute perfection.  Remember Beijing's Olympic opening ceremony?

Be. Very. Afraid.

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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #159 on: February 04, 2023, 05:10:43 pm »
Quote from: DCPatriot on February 04, 2023, 03:41:12 pm

We've all seen Chinese troops marching by the thousands in perfect synchronization...angle of head/face...angle of bayonets.  They march as one organism.

The USA military is incapable of even drumming that mentality into the typical recruit. 

It's tantamount to Barishnikov vs. Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy.   happy77

You want people who can think and adjust to the situation. Not mindless synchronized zombies.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #160 on: February 04, 2023, 05:10:59 pm »
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Bloomberg reports that the White House kept the balloon’s presence under wraps for fear of derailing the Blinken trip, until local media in Billings Montana published a picture of it on Thursday afternoon.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-04/from-china-to-big-sky-the-balloon-that-unnerved-the-white-house

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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #161 on: February 04, 2023, 05:13:22 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on February 04, 2023, 03:41:13 pm

https://twitter.com/Apoctoz/status/1621895579788877831

I can't stop laughing much less playing it over and over.

I am thinking this balloon and Joe wil be forever linked in meme.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #162 on: February 04, 2023, 05:15:43 pm »
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BREAKING: Chinese spy balloon now spotted over Charlotte, NC., where several high-altitude jet contrails have been reported. NC is home to a number of key US military installations, inclg Marine Camp Lejeune near the coast & Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, home of the 82nd Airborne

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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #163 on: February 04, 2023, 05:18:37 pm »
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BREAKING: Chinese spy balloon now spotted over Charlotte, NC., where several high-altitude jet contrails have been reported. NC is home to a number of key US military installations, inclg Marine Camp Lejeune near the coast & Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, home of the 82nd Airborne

10:32 AM · Feb 4, 2023

Our government better damned well bring this thing down and confiscate it after it goes off shore.

If not, the public outcry will be deafening.  Even the libs are screaming.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #164 on: February 04, 2023, 05:19:44 pm »
Quote from: DB on February 04, 2023, 05:10:43 pm
You want people who can think and adjust to the situation. Not mindless synchronized zombies.

Okay... "Uncle!!"  Damnit.

...must be something in TBR's water supply or something.    :shrug:


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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #165 on: February 04, 2023, 05:23:25 pm »
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Suspected Chinese Spy Balloon Spotted Over North Carolina; US Might Shoot It Down Over Atlantic



https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/suspected-chinese-spy-balloon-spotted-over-north-carolina-us-might-shoot-it-down-over

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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #166 on: February 04, 2023, 05:26:24 pm »
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BREAKING: The Chinese spy craft has been reported flying as low as 35,000 feet and potentially in the path of commercial passenger jets above a number of states, alarming the FAA, according to federal aviation security sources

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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #167 on: February 04, 2023, 05:30:17 pm »
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GASTONIA, N.C. — North Carolina police urge residents not to take ‘potshots’ at Chinese spy balloon
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #168 on: February 04, 2023, 05:32:28 pm »
I doubt any of my little popguns can shoot 35,000+ feet in the air, but I can assure you that if I did have the firepower, shooting it down accidentally (of course) would not be out of the question.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #169 on: February 04, 2023, 05:36:56 pm »
Yeah, I doubt it.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #170 on: February 04, 2023, 05:45:07 pm »
I'm looking at flightradar24.com, and a couple of military stratotankers are roaming around the coast of S.Car.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #171 on: February 04, 2023, 05:47:42 pm »
Quote from: mountaineer on February 04, 2023, 05:36:56 pm
Yeah, I doubt it.

Nice! Shoot it down after it has transmitted all the information it has gathered.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #172 on: February 04, 2023, 05:49:56 pm »
Something fishy is going on.  Friday, Biden flies from DC to Philadelphia, and then Philadelphia to Delaware.  Today he flies from Delaware to Syracuse, NY, visits a "local stop" (no press), and then flies to Camp David.  And Hunter is with him, flying on Air Force One.
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Update: Biden travelling to Syracuse for the funeral of his first wife's brother.  Still doesn't explain the Delaware stop, though.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #173 on: February 04, 2023, 05:50:03 pm »
Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng 曾錚真言
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Producer of #ChineseSpyBalloon, China Zhuzhou Rubber Research & Design Institute  (中国化工株洲橡胶研究设计院有限公司), is a government-owned military research institute with weapon production licenses.
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Re: Pentagon: Chinese spy balloon spotted over Western US
« Reply #174 on: February 04, 2023, 05:56:50 pm »
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Shooting down the balloon *after* it completes it’s mission is exactly what you’d expect Biden to do if he needed to ask Xi’s permission first

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