WASHINGTON—China previously sent high-altitude surveillance balloons over the U.S. that went undetected until after leaving American airspace, Biden administration officials said, as the military salvaged debris Sunday from the downed balloon in a bid to learn more about the Chinese operation.

After the Pentagon disclosed last week that it was tracking the balloon that the Air Force shot down Saturday off the Carolina coast, defense officials said that there have been prior intrusions over the continental U.S. At least three of those occurred during former President Donald Trump‘s term in office and once previously under President Biden.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-decision-to-delay-shootdown-of-chinese-balloon-questioned-11675616189

US is still a country made up of humans, and humans are not perfect.

HumbleTrader:
US is still a country made up of humans, and humans are not perfect.

I thought they're perfect...
Assuming it was Russia, here and every western media will be filled with how incompetent they are... It reach US turn, you're telling us story of how imperfect humans can be...

Common balloon they can't detect it entering their country talkless of shooting it down... SMH

Interesting

The greatest weapon of the west remains their media with which the perfect their deception and manipulation of the minds of the Earth'e inhabitants. The media can make a weak man look strong. It can make a wicked man look kind.

HumbleTrader:
US is still a country made up of humans, and humans are not perfect.

Really,u mean the almighty America can also fvck up hnmmm

Still the most powerful, most advanced and richest country on earth.
Music, Hollywood, Olympics, army, Aid/donation, technology e.t.c na dem dey reign.
Still the greatest.

opamoses1:
Still the most powerful, most advanced and richest country on earth.
Music, Hollywood, Olympics, army, Aid/donation, technology e.t.c na dem dey reign.
Still the greatest.

The most influential: yes
The most powerful: Doubtful
The Richest: Simply because dollar is the defacto global currency
Technology: Not even in the best 3

atmy1:


The most influential: yes
The most powerful: Doubtful
The Richest: Simply because dollar is the defacto global currency
Technology: Not even in the best 3

Apt responses.

atmy1:


The most influential: yes
The most powerful: Doubtful
The Richest: Simply because dollar is the defacto global currency
Technology: Not even in the best 3

- The OS on your phone, na America get am. E not fit pass android or iOs
- If you are employed, I can guarantee that your office tools run on Microsoft, Adobe, e.t.c
- some Biggest oil company (chevron, Baker Hughes, Exxon Mobil e.t.c.)
- biggest space agency (NASA)
- some biggest electrical engineering firms (GE, Eaton e.t.c)
- some of the biggest civil engineering firms
- Best doctors and medical technology in the world (drs removing baby in womb, operating and putting baby back in womb)
- America gave us AC (Nikola Tesla) and DC (Thomas Edison) and many other world top scientists
- Some of the best universities in the world (Havard, Yale, MIT, Caltech, Princeton e.t.c
- Some of the biggest computer brand names (HP, Dell e.t.c
- Biggest automobiles (Ford, GM, Tesla e.t.c)
- Biggest social media companies (which has provided jobs for many influencers all over the world e.g. instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter e.t.c)
- Some of the Biggest and most popular and world famous online merchant (Amazon and eBay)
- Largest Aid donor in the world
- Best security agencies (US marines, US Army, US Navy, Coast guards..
- Aside football (soccer), they dominate every sport
- Biggest movies ever produced
- Biggest War machinery companies
- Biggest Airlines
- Biggest Aeroplane engine manufacturers
- America dominates the Nobel prize award winners
- World biggest media houses (CNN, Fox e.t.c are beaming on sattelite TVs on different households around the world
- Biggest kids entertainment (Disney Lands, Warner Bros e.t.c
- US military base all over the world
- Best music awarda coveted all over the world (Grammy, BET, Soultrain e.t.c.)
- Best movie awards( Academy, Oscar e.t.c)
- Best online streaming services (Amazon Video, Netflix e.t.c)

We can go on and on.............

Let us see your own list and with examples why you are doubtful and not even in the top 3 of tech....

Thank you.

Meanwhile, as US shoots down chinese balloon, Chinese and Russians are trying to enter US ilegally via Mexico.

To many Chinese students, it's USA study visa or nothing.

opamoses1:

- The OS on your phone, na America get am. E not fit pass android or iOs
- If you are employed, I can guarantee that your office tools run on Microsoft, Adobe, e.t.c
- some Biggest oil company (chevron, Baker Hughes, Exxon Mobil e.t.c.)
- biggest space agency (NASA)
- some biggest electrical engineering firms (GE, Eaton e.t.c)
- some of the biggest civil engineering firms
- Best doctors and medical technology in the world (drs removing baby in womb, operating and putting baby back in womb)
- America gave us AC (Nikola Tesla) and DC (Thomas Edison) and many other world top scientists
- Some of the best universities in the world (Havard, Yale, MIT, Caltech, Princeton e.t.c
- Some of the biggest computer brand names (HP, Dell e.t.c
- Biggest automobiles (Ford, GM, Tesla e.t.c)

- Biggest social media companies (which has provided jobs for many influencers all over the world e.g. instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter e.t.c)
- Some of the Biggest and most popular and world famous online merchant (Amazon and eBay)
- Largest Aid donor in the world
- Best security agencies (US marines, US Army, US Navy, Coast guards..
- Aside football (soccer), they dominate every sport
- Biggest movies ever produced
- Biggest War machinery companies
- Biggest Airlines
- Biggest Aeroplane engine manufacturers
- America dominates the Nobel prize award winners
- World biggest media houses (CNN, Fox e.t.c are beaming on sattelite TVs on different households around the world
- Biggest kids entertainment (Disney Lands, Warner Bros e.t.c
- US military base all over the world
- Best music awarda coveted all over the world (Grammy, BET, Soultrain e.t.c.)
- Best movie awards( Academy, Oscar e.t.c)
- Best online streaming services (Amazon Video, Netflix e.t.c)

We can go on and on.............

Let us see your own list and with examples why you are doubtful and not even in the top 3 of tech....

Thank you.

Everything you have mentioned, Russia and probably China has their own versions that may sometimes be more efficient but most people in the world use American versions because of the US influence. Most people will not know that the Russians don't use GPS but have their own geolocational technology. This is what the US wants so that everyone will depend on them and it will be easy to catch you when you do what they don't want. They cannot get China and Russia, and it makes them mad.

Ordinary 5G technology they are trying to catch up with China.
Up till a few years ago, NASA relied on Russia to transport their astronauts to the international space station.
There are several other areas where it is evident that other countries are far ahead of the US. Like I say, US is the most influential, simply because of the power of its media.

atmy1:


The most influential: yes
The most powerful: Doubtful
The Richest: Simply because dollar is the defacto global currency
Technology: Not even in the best 3

the richest for where?

Vl3ly:
the richest for where?

You guys like to argue on your American android phones. Lol

Past tense. From now on, when we see them we shall blow them up.

BentizilL:

I thought they're perfect...
Assuming it was Russia, here and every western media will be filled with how incompetent they are... It reach US turn, you're telling us story of how imperfect humans can be...

Common balloon they can't detect it entering their country talkless of shooting it down... SMH

If it took them days to shoot down a common balloon, how would they deal with an unstoppable Russian hypersonic missile if there is an aggression between both nations.

mysticwarrior:
If it took them days to shoot down a common balloon, how would they deal with an unstoppable Russian hypersonic missile if there is an aggression between both nations.

You are just full of hatred and always bn sentimental. Can't you read where they said they don't want to shoot it down on their mainland not to cause casualties... They let it flow far away over the sea before shooting it down. You think it's your country that do things without reasoning. Abeg jare.

Cizarr:
You are just full of hatred and always bn sentimental. [b]Can't you read where they said they don't want to shoot it down on their mainland not to cause casualties... They let it flow far away over the sea before shooting it down. Y[/b]ou think it's your country that do things without reasoning. Abeg jare.

Lame excuse, why didn't they shut it down when it was still at US controlled water ways before it reached the US mainland? They could have as well left the september 11th fourth plane to crashed into the white house if they really do not want to bring it down in a populated area.

Let me ask you this, don't they have air defense system planted in populated areas, and if so why do they have it there if they won't use it to bring down possible threat? My brother don't let those people subject you to a psychological imprisonment with their boldface lie.

Enugurangers:

You guys like to argue on your American android phones. Lol

subtract there debt from there GDP maybe they are not going to have problem

US HAS AN EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEM. THIS LAST BALLOON SHOT DOWN WILL REVEAL HOW FAR CHINA HAS GONE WITH SPYING ON THE US.

atmy1:
The greatest weapon of the west remains their media with which the perfect their deception and manipulation of the minds of the Earth'e inhabitants. The media can make a weak man look strong. It can make a wicked man look kind.

and also their Movies

mysticwarrior:

Lame excuse, why didn't they shut it down when it was still at US controlled water ways before it reached the US mainland? They could have as well left the september 11th fourth plane to crashed into the white house if they really do not want to bring it down in a populated area.

Let me ask you this, don't they have air defense system planted in populated areas, and if so why do they have it there if they won't use it to bring down possible threat? My brother don't let those people subject you to a psychological imprisonment with their boldface lie.

Why would they use air defense?..was it a threat...was the balloon firing missiles?.. they have to analyze very well before deciding since it wasn't something very urgent or emergency. I think you know the height in which that balloon is flying... Naw you are talking about air defense. Maybe you actually knows better than pentagon. Everything to discredit America is welcome by putards.

Cizarr:
Why would they use air defense?..was it a threat...was the balloon firing missiles?.. they have to analyze very well before deciding since it wasn't something very urgent or emergency. I think you know the height in which that balloon is flying... Naw you are talking about air defense. Maybe you actually knows better than pentagon. Everything to discredit America is welcome by putards.

It's seems you do not know the meaning of "Air defense, Air defense is simply using every strategic means at your disposal to intercept any enemy operated flying objects seen as threat. The way and method the US used in shooting down that balloon is well classified as air defense.

Secondly you asked if it was a threat, If it wasn't seen as a threat by the US why would they as they claim "allowed it to glide away from populated areas" before bringing it down? Didn't you also read where they said they didn't know the content of the balloon? If they didn't see it as a threat then what is the purpose of shooting it down?

And for how many days would it take a country like the US who boasts of having the best advance technology to "analyzed" a slow moving object like that balloon before deciding what to do? Talk to me bro, talk to me.

mysticwarrior:
It's seems you do not know the meaning of "Air defense, Air defense is simply using every strategic means at your disposal to intercept any enemy operated flying objects seen as threat. The way and method the US used in shooting down that balloon is well classified as air defense.

Secondly you asked if it was a threat, If it wasn't seen as a threat by the US why would they as they claim "allowed it to glide away from populated areas" before bringing it down? Didn't you also read where they said they didn't know the content of the balloon? If they didn't see it as a threat then what is the purpose of shooting it down?

And for how many days would it take a country like the US who boasts of having the best advance technology to "analyzed" a slow moving object like that balloon before deciding what to do? Talk to me bro, talk to me.

They knw what they are doing bro, they decide on what's best for them. You know they are capable of destroy it before entering their mainland. So they know what they are doing.

Cizarr:
They knw what they are doing bro, they decide on what's best for them. You know they are capable of destroy it before entering their mainland. So they know what they are doing.

They don't know what they're doing, stop making excuse for failure..
They aren't capable of destroying it, stop lying and saying what you don't know...

Biden had to mobilize their whole air force, shutting down everywhere to shoot down just a common balloon 🎈... Tuehh I spit on them...

BentizilL:

They don't know what they're doing, stop making excuse for failure..
They aren't capable of destroying it, stop lying and saying what you don't know...

Biden had to mobilize their whole air force, shutting down everywhere to shoot down just a common balloon 🎈... Tuehh I spit on them...

It wouldn't even take a country like Rwanda 45 minutes to down that balloon, what a shame.

Cizarr:
They knw what they are doing bro, they decide on what's best for them. You know they are capable of destroy it before entering their mainland. So they know what they are doing.

stop defending nonsense joorr