Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Feb. 5, 2023. Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Thompson
Real Clear Defense: What Russia and China Have Learned From Testing U.S. Defenses
While the Chinese spy balloon fell into the Atlantic, concerns remain about how and why it appeared undetected, and what are the takeaways from the handling of this situation. We now know this wasn’t an isolated incidence, but rather part of a chain of events.
The same day, January 28th, the U.S. Air Force spotted the spy balloon making its way inwards from Alaska, where it entered the extreme west of the U.S. near the Aleutian islands, it briefly drifted into Canadian airspace, returning inland on January 31st. Later, South American authorities confirmed another spy balloon hovering and moving overhead. Only a few days prior to the invasion of the Chinese spy balloons into the Western Hemisphere’s airspace, the U.S. Coast Guard caught a Russian spy ship gathering intelligence near Hawaii. While the media focused on one spy ship, the Coast Guard released photos of several. Far from being mysterious ghost ships materializing out of thin air, these ships had been tracked for weeks while changing course and making their way to the U.S., where they then spent more weeks doing what they do best.
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WNU Editor: I do not know if China and Russia working together to test US defenses as the above post speculates. But I do know that Russia and China are finding they have a lot of common ground, and one of them is to view the U.S. as a hostile adversary.
3 comments:
China and Russia have viewed the US as a hostile adversary for well over a decade if not longer. What has changed is that the US has reluctantly accepted that China and Russia are in fact hostile adversaries and not strategic partners.
Cjros
Yes you are correct. Once you turn the whole sentence around and replace US with Russia
Lets see 3 of the 4 balloons were Weather and Hobby Club baloons. We $2,000,000 USD shooting down $12.00 balloons. More than embarrassing to the DOD and makes our USAF look as effective as the UK's RAF role in Singapore in 1942- Ineffective and ueless.
Thhe one our incompetent, useless political commissar generals and admirals should have shot down floated across the USA freely transmitting whatever it wanted.
The US military is a paper tiger. Low morale, lack of unit cohesion, dieing patriotism, and a lost sense of purpose, unity and mission. Anyone there now is heading out ASAP or riding it out for the pension. Many units will collapse within days in front of the Chinese and even the Russians.
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