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Pentagon says it had ‘an awareness gap’ that led to failure to detect 3 Chinese balloons under Trump

Scott
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The real reason the Pentagon missed these Chinese spy balloons during Trump's term is that they were more focussed on the Russian spy blimp in the White House.  It's no coincidence that they've started spotting the Chinese ones now that threat has gone.

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    • SunnyinBangrak
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      Reads like frantic backpedalling from the false claims yesterday the Trump admin allowed at least 3 of these Chinese spy balloons to cross the USA just like biden's balloon did. Ouch.   Alwa

    • Phoenix Rising
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      Do I detect some bitterness that this episode seemed to be a rare chance for the right whiners to attack President Biden and then it all imploded when it turned out that 45 had cluelessly allowed it t

    • sqwakvfr
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      This just gave the MAGA more ammo.  In essence NORAD failed to detect airborne intrusion.  But NORAD did a great job in tracking Santa in December. 800 Billion Dollar Defense Budget and could not dete

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    On 2/7/2023 at 7:33 AM, Tug said:

    (I’m speculating here) that they dident pass on the information due to the knowledge of trumps famous instability and temper tantrums 

    Like when Iran shot down a US drone and some in the Pentagon wanted retaliation,  but Trump said no?

    13 minutes ago, Jaybott said:

    Like when Iran shot down a US drone and some in the Pentagon wanted retaliation,  but Trump said no?

    US-Iran: Trump says military was 'cocked and loaded' to retaliate

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