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The missile hit the balloon, not the equipment that was attached and fixed dangling from the bottom of it. It was shot down over relatively shallow water so retrieving it should not be too problematic, navy ships already in the vicinity. "U.S. officials said, the debris field stretched at least 7 miles, and was in water 47 feet deep. That depth is shallower than what they had planned, making it easier to retrieve pieces of the sensor package and other parts that may be salvageable." https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-antony-blinken-china-b1b03193b7abeb7bbeca169bbc7c2c53 Video of the shoot down here.

So far nobody audit armaments which have disappeared from ukraine and ended up in Africa and elsewhere in zones of military conflict and civil war, as well as at terrorist's hands. Can you provide a credible link to these claims of yours, particularly those ending up in Africa? A source from a propaganda platform for Iran does not count.

China protests US downing of suspected spy balloon, keeps right for ‘reaction’ WASHINGTON/BEIJING - China on Sunday said it expressed strong dissatisfaction and opposition towards the United States’ use of force to down its balloon and reserved the right for any necessary reaction to the incident. The use of force against the balloon, which China said is for civilian use and entered the US accidentally, was an “obvious overreaction” and violated international standard practices, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Sunday. President Joe Biden said he had issued an order on Wednesday to take down the balloon, but the Pentagon had recommended waiting until it could be done over open water to safeguard civilians from debris crashing down to Earth from thousands of metres above commercial air traffic. https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/us-shoots-down-suspected-chinese-spy-balloon

Why let facts get in the way of a few subpoenas from the the GOP From the OP link: "Garland and the FBI have strenuously rejected the GOP accusation — which fact checkers have also deemed false — saying their focus was on protecting school board members amid sharply escalating threats of violence, with no emphasis on parents or those raising policy concerns about Covid restrictions. the White House immediately hit back at Jordan — saying he was marshaling his powerful gavel in pursuit of right-wing conspiracy theories that had largely been debunked."

https://twitter.com/DefenceHQ/status/1621827200503750656

I believe you're right, under the right conditions the EU would have no problem with Britain rejoining, this from just 3 days ago UK can rejoin EU ‘any time’, says Michel Barnier The door is open for Britain to rejoin the EU “any time”, Michel Barnier said on Wednesday - before warning the UK not to tear up Brussels regulations after Brexit. Mr Barnier, the former Brexit negotiator, said diverging too far from EU rules now would make it more difficult for Britain to rejoin the bloc in future. “The door to the EU side will remain open any time for you,” he said. “Though everybody knows the conditions.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/02/01/uk-can-rejoin-eu-time-says-michel-barnier/

“We are seeing reports of a balloon transiting Latin America. We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon,” press secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said in a statement to CNN. It is unclear exactly where the balloon is over Latin America – but a US official tells CNN it does not appear to be currently heading to the United States. https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/suspected-chinese-balloon-over-us-02-04-23/h_3c1c5225c339fc04901fcebf655fde56

No idea why nobody mentioned it at the time. "The Pentagon says that this is not the first time that a Chinese surveillance balloon has passed over U.S. territory, including in the continental United States, and that the prior incidents predate Biden taking office in January 2021. Separate reports say that Chinese balloons previously passed over unspecified parts of Florida, Hawaii, and Guam." https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/chinese-spy-balloon-reaches-missouri

Really? "The balloon spotted this week over Montana was not the first time the US has detected Chinese balloons over their territory – with previous incursions occurring during the Trump Administration." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-03/high-flying-balloon-seen-as-part-of-broader-chinese-spy-program

Why the US hasn’t shot down the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, according to officials A US official added on Friday to CNN: “This isn’t like ‘Top Gun’ where it just explodes and doesn’t go anywhere. It’s large and it’s metal, it would put hundreds of Americans at risk.” President Joe Biden was briefed on the balloon’s movements and requested options from his military advisers and while there was consideration to down the balloon while it was over Montana, the advice was to ultimately not to, the Biden administration acted “immediately” to protect against the collection of sensitive intelligence, an official said on Thursday. But that’s not to say that it couldn’t be shot down eventually; the senior defense official said on Thursday that the US has “options to deal with this balloon” if the risk it poses changes. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/03/politics/us-monitoring-chinese-balloon/index.html However according to MTG who's having regular rants about this on twitter, any average person could shoot it down. Although she failed to mention how exactly any old Joe could shoot it down, an AR-15 does not have the capacity to fire up 55,000 feet............lol https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1621626596581937152

You may not have noticed but the Ukraine military along with aid from not just the US is doing very well reclaiming the land that Russia invaded and illegally annexed, without the need for NATO boots on the ground. Will peace talks end this, of course, we all know that but not while Russia still holds so much territory that is clear.

Putin may have overestimated the Russian military’s own capabilities again, as ISW previously assessed ISW has not observed any evidence that Russian forces have restored sufficient combat power to defeat Ukraine’s forces in eastern Ukraine and capture over 11,300 square kilometers of unoccupied Donetsk Oblast (over 42 percent of Donetsk Oblast’s total area) before March as Putin reportedly ordered. ISW previously assessed that a major Russian offensive before April 2023 would likely prematurely culminate during the April spring rain season (if not before) before achieving operationally significant effects.[7] Russian forces’ culmination could then generate favorable conditions for Ukrainian forces to exploit in their own late spring or summer 2023 counteroffensive after incorporating Western tank deliveries. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-2-2023

Don't need NATO boots on the ground, whatever gave you that notion?

A dangerous neo-nazi group that had their own home school lesson plans promoting Hitler, here's a bit more info on Logan Lawrence and his wife. Inside a US Neo-Nazi Homeschool Network With Thousands of Members An Ohio couple has been unmasked as leaders of the neo-Nazi “Dissident Homeschool” Telegram channel that distributes lesson plans to 2,400 members. Earlier this month, while the rest of the country was celebrating the achievements of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., parents and children in the “Dissident Homeschool” network opened a lesson plan and were greeted with the words: “As Adolf Hitler wrote…” The contents of the MLK lesson plan would be shocking for almost anyone, but for members of the 2,400-member “Dissident Homeschool” Telegram channel, this was a regular Monday at school. https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34ane/neo-nazi-homeschool-ohio

#UPDATE European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has praised efforts by Ukraine to stamp out graft in the wake of several public probes and high-profile dismissals linked to embezzlement.

*Deleted post edited out* Thanks saved me pointing out the simple fact. 10 shots fired and the excuses are have started.

Not a lot Fox News and Tucker can do to spin this one. Disgusting murder of a black disabled man who was shuffling away from the police.

Fighting Wagner is like a ‘zombie movie’ says Ukrainian soldier Southwest of the city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian soldiers Andriy and Borisych live in a candle-lit bunker cut into the frozen earth. For several weeks they have been confronting hundreds of fighters belonging to the Russian private military contractor Wagner throwing themselves against Ukrainian defenses. Disguised in a balaclava, Andriy recounts one seemingly endless firefight when they came under attack by a flood of Wagner fighters. “We were fighting for about 10 hours in a row. And it wasn’t like just waves, it was uninterrupted. So it was just like they didn’t stop coming.” https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/01/europe/ukraine-soldiers-fighting-wagner-intl-cmd/index.html

Rumor that started from a facebook post "We rate this unsubstantiated claim False." https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/feb/02/facebook-posts/claims-that-tyre-nichols-was-dating-a-police-offic

Giving them away, $1 each, the catch being they are very expensive to maintain and it still needs the Biden administration to sign off as they may be worried about the tech getting into Russian hands if shot down. They are able to stay in the air for 24 hours at a time and can also carry weapons. U.S. Company Offers Advanced Drones to Ukraine for One Dollar, With Some Costs A U.S. weapons maker is offering to sell the Ukraine government two Reaper MQ-9 drones for a dollar to help the country defend itself as it prepares for an expected Russian offensive. The deal would require Kyiv to spend about $10 million to prepare and ship the aircraft to Ukraine, and about $8 million each year for maintenance and sustainment of the older model drones, which currently aren’t being used in Ukraine. The proposal would include a ground control station to operate the drones almost anywhere, according to a letter reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. https://archive.ph/SuFTi https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/u-s-company-offers-advanced-drones-to-ukraine-for-one-dollar-with-caveat-11675203260 wiki image source

I have no idea, so far the majority of US residents support the military aid to Ukraine. You're not one of them however so why concern yourself?

Sure I agree, I've already stated repeatably in my posts that more training is needed, this particular cop however had training to join the team, sometimes training is not enough when there is other factors involved and again 40 hours of Mental Illness training is far from sufficient. From my post link. "40 hours of mental illness training to join the force’s Crisis Intervention Team." However thats obviously not enough

They are trained to ask questions before they pull people out of their cars , that didn’t happen here. another fact , Correct: White Cop Who Wanted Colleagues to ‘Stomp’ Tyre Nichols Is Suspended Nichols family attorney Ben Crump said it was Hemphill who violently pulled Nichols from his car while striking him with a taser during an initial traffic stop—something clearly captured by body-cam footage released by authorities on Friday night. https://www.thedailybeast.com/memphis-police-officer-preston-hemphill-disciplined-over-tyre-nichols-death

Good luck to you, you certainly need it.

His message was : "The idea that we're going to have tanks and planes and trains with American pilots and crews" would lead to WW111 Your interpretation is an opinion that I do not share and one that was not stated by him.