What A Joke: Here's How Pentagon Is Monetarily Validating The "Balloon Disaster"

By Ryan Canady | Sunday, 26 February 2023 12:00 PM
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What A Joke: Here's How Pentagon Is Monetarily Validating The "Balloon Disaster"

The United States military recently spent more than $1.5 million taking down Chinese spy balloons, and they are now putting it down as a “recreational” or “research” expense.

They can say whatever they want, but most see this as a tremendous waste of government funds.

The Blaze News reports that President Biden recently said: “the intelligence community’s current assessment is that these three objects were most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreation, or research institutions studying weather or conducting other scientific research.”

Previously, Biden had said: “Make no mistake, if any object presents a threat to the safety and security of the American people, I will take it down.”

The missiles alone were used to take down the balloon ring at $400,000 a piece, and four were used to take down the Chinese spy balloons that our government had to shoot down. That is a costly mission, and many are wondering why the Chinese were able to get their spy balloons over the United States in the first place. The Blaze reports that one of the missiles missed the balloon entirely, so that was $400,000 down the drain.

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General Milley said: “First shot missed on the fourth balloon,” and “The second one over Alaska ... that one hit. The third one that landed in the Yukon, that one hit. On the fourth one over Lake Huron, first shot missed second shot hit.”

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The search for the downed balloons has been suspended even though the FBI made no formal findings about them or what they are all about.

Officials stated they would not include factors such as the labor used to remove the balloons. They say they couldn’t include this in the cost as those costs were already budgeted into the military’s operating costs. They anticipated spending the money for the labor that was used in this case, so it is simply the fact that we can’t know for sure exactly how much this particular mission truly costs.

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Air Force Col. Elizabeth Mathias, a spokeswoman for NORAD, commented on all this by saying: “Every day, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) watches the skies over North America. We do so using radars and aircraft to detect, track, identify, and assess potential threats in accordance with standard NORAD procedures.”

There are a lot of people who are highly concerned both about the balloons themselves and also about the cost of taking them down.

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