Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance
By now you probably know the Chinese spy balloon that, for some reason, was allowed to traverse the entire United States despite us knowing about it days ago, has been shot down.
Put simply, it was too little, too late for several reasons – and there’s been shuffling, specifically economically, by China over the last 10 years that shows the country’s aggression toward the U.S. could only be getting started.
First, China (and Russia) both now have a gauge of our reluctance to secure our own airspace. If the deployment of the balloon was to see how we’d react, they got their answer: slowly and uncertainly.
Second, if the balloon’s purpose actually was surveillance, and nothing more nefarious, it was likely able to get whatever data it set out for, after floating above numerous military installations.
Third, we have to be acutely aware of the potential for the balloon to be a test run for another balloon, many of which have speculated could be the means for an EMP:
High-altitude balloons, such as the one China has floated over mountain state military bases this week, are considered a key “delivery platform” for secret nuclear strikes on America’s electric grid, according to intelligence officials.
Spy balloons, used by Japan to drop bombs during World War II, are now far more sophisticated, can fly at up to 200,000 feet, evade detection, and can carry a small nuclear bomb that, if exploded in the atmosphere, would shut down the grid and wipe out electronics in a many-state-wide area.
You have to assume that China would know that this balloon – and the two other ones being reported (one over Latin America and now a third potentially outside the U.S.) – would be discovered. Additionally, there were reports yesterday that the balloons were maneuverable, ostensibly meaning the balloon had been directed on its path.
If this is the case, I have to believe it is either a test of how aggressively they could humiliate President Biden publicly (similar to how the Saudis did months ago), or it’s a distraction for something else going on.
The balloon was over Alaska nearly a week ago. Instead of dealing with it then, we allowed it to go untouched, giving China the upper hand, regardless of whether they set out for surveillance or to test us.
“They got a lot of intelligence they couldn’t get from their satellites. There’s a lot that China learned from this,” Gordon Chang said on Fox News today.
I’ll leave the speculation about the balloon and military response to cable news and your own critical thinking. But what I do want to point out is what has been going on behind the scenes economically from China.
While we focus on the obvious, it’s important to also understand that from a monetary and financial perspective, it looks like China is preparing for war.
Notably, China is continuing to stockpile gold while selling U.S. Treasuries, an obvious step that a country readying either for war or to challenge the U.S. dollar on a global stage (or both) would be taking.
As Zero Hedge noted last month, China has now bought 100 tons of gold in days.
I was also one of the few outlets last summer to report on the fact that Russia and China openly announced a “new global reserve currency” (announced in July 2022, predicted by me in February 2022). And of course, Russia and China can’t do it on their own: they are working with nations like Saudi Arabia to help put their plans into practice.
Crucial to dethroning the U.S. dollar would be the removal of its use for buying and selling oil – a system that has been in place since the 1970s when the U.S. promised security for the Saudi Kingdom in exchange for the petrodollar system that underpins the dollar’s strength as global reserve currency.
Saudi Arabia looks like it has just ended the petrodollar as of days ago. The admission came on a very public stage, in front of the whole world, at Davos.
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The sequence of these events telegraph escalation and we need to take the prospect of China’s threat very seriously.
Espionage on the part of China shouldn’t be a surprise – but have we noticed the economic espionage that has been taking place? For example, I wrote last summer about how China spied on the U.S. Federal Reserve and threatened a U.S. economist for policy information.
All the while, China has been allying itself with Russia further. It was reported today that China is openly now helping Russia with the war in Ukraine, likely in violation of sanctions:
China’s state-owned defense companies have shipped navigation equipment and parts to fighter jets and other military technology equipment to Russian defense companies, according to Russian customs data.
China has sent tens of thousands of shipments of goods to service Russia’s military (some goods had multiple purposes and could be used commercially, the Journal reported).
Meanwhile, China has also expressed its desire to eventually take back Taiwan – it is hardly a secret at this point. Those who know the space the best seem to agree, as recently as last month when General H.R. McMaster said on CBS’s Face the Nation that China is all but guaranteed to try and re-take Taiwan.
“Xi Jinping has made it quite clear, in his statements, that he is going to make, from his perspective, China whole again by subsuming Taiwan. And preparations are underway,” he said.
Anybody who has read my 23 Stocks To Watch For 2023 (or any of my other recent articles discussing how I am personally positioning myself for this thesis) knows that I believe we are on the precipice of an unprecedented era geopolitically. We’ve now seen China steal intellectual property globally, stockpile gold, spy on the Fed, openly state it will challenge the dollar, plan to back its currency with gold or oil, and physically enter U.S. airspace (without any meaningful recourse).
I don’t know what the spy balloon means – but what I do know is that it likely belies additional coming aggression, potentially both physically and economically.
What is it going to take for us to take China seriously as a threat?
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Show us on the doll where the balloon touched you honey.
This is all so tiresome.
I’ve participated in operations using similar equipment on battlefield.
We’ve had this capability for a very, very long time.
This whole “baroon” business is a Deep State false flag.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest
I think a lot of people know that.
Saxons wrath
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-balloons-surveillance-midwest
Elevate this^^^^^^^^
This story blows the narrative 100%!
Maybe there was something we wanted China to see? There was certainly something China wanted US to see.
Today we’re playing peek a boo.
Tomorrow we play peek a boom!
Maybe China was shooting a real estate TV commercial to advertise Montana land to wealthy Chinese oligarchs using a drone balloon film platform rented from DARPA.
What a load of massive bullshit! Then again, how da fuk do I know since …. EVERYONE lies.
********* QUICK SIMPLE POLL *************
Q: Is that a SPY balloon?
—- UP = Yes
—- DOWN = No
Me?
No. Fucken. Way.
What do they claim?
Then it is not that.
Once you get down with my program life becomes much easier to navigate.
Quick observations.
1. We didn’t know there was a Chink balloon in American airspace until it reached …… MONTANA??? That’s some kind of air defense system we got there, eh?
—–1A) The fJB government said they didn’t shoot it down over Montana for fear of causing civilian casualties. If you believe that bullshit you’re a maroon. Fact; pop density in Montana is 7.4 people per square mile. You can drop fucken New Jersey on Montana and not hit anyone!! I mean, WTF do they have to lie about everything??
2. Sooooo, China is gonna spy on the USA!USA!USA! with a fookin’ balloon …. when they have dozens of satellites already hovering over America???
3. Why we acting like uppity niggahs when WE do the same god damned thing???
#3 – because we are a nation led by shitheels.
1/3 downvote for point #1, upvote for points 2 & 3. So, 2/3 upvote, plus 1/3 for phrasing.
Point #1 holds until it actually lands on a playground during recess and all the sheeple scream “Why?!! Why would you shoot it down? Why wouldn’t you wait until it was over the ocean?!!!”
Montana is 147,040 square miles.
There are 8 playgrounds in the entire state.
What are the odds?
not to mention “it’s a farkin’ baroon!”. Unless it fell on a swimming pool full of kids, I’m not seeing a problem!
It’s a well known scientifical fact that in murika anything like a baroon people will flock to and gather beneath it. So they can get a better shot at it with their 1911. So odds of it crashing down on people in Montana is high.
The chinks aren’t stupid. They’re studying the weakness of the 25+ and younger shitheads fixated with China’s spyware installed on their devices..
Now what we try ? Send barroon .. watch older idiots try figure out. Merican heads explode before our barroon explode. Hahaha ! what a bunch of FUCKING maroons
“You can drop fucken New Jersey on Montana and not hit anyone!”
That’s gold, that is.
I gotta say, I’d actually pay to see that.
I couldn’t, for the life of me, understand why the entire media and almost the entire alternative media were going apeshit over a fucking balloon. This story, on ZH last night (and reproduced by Jim here on TBP today), finally brings a note of sanity into the whole affair.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-spy-balloon-story-manufactured-crisis-alternative-reading
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Thank you for that! :o)
BLM …. Balloon Lives Matter
***** Breaking News ****
“The Pop-That-Balloon military campaign was jointly conducted by an aircraft carrier, AWACS, a flying tanker, National Guard helicopters, a nuclear submarine and other USN support ships. An incredibly brave F-22 fighter pilot was engaged in a lengthy and brutal one hour dogfight with the balloon before successfully destroying it by accidently flying into it. General Miley called it “one of America’s proudest military success in the past 20 years”. The United States of America suffered no casualties.”
What will it take for us to wake up to the Chinese threat? How about removing a “president” who is obviously totally compromised by the Chinese? A little nugget. The Chinese have been picking up U.S. diplomats in Beijing and beating the shit out of them. Not a peep from Washington. The FBI should collar the next Chinese spy and pummel him to a fare-thee-well, but they won’t.
What will it take? It’ll take a single balloon. That’s the point of this psychological operation.
It worked wonderfully.
Trust the behavioral science.
I disagree.
What fJB should do is impose harsh economic sanctions against the Chinese Balloon Industry & Oligarchs.
That’ll show ’em!!!
Best air defense /s
Moar humiliation and mockery of the world’s – by far and away – moast expensive military establishment of all time,
pResident Biden said he ordered the balloon to be shot down but was over-ruled by mean old General Milley.
Remember the scene in Dr. Strangelove when President Muffly told General Buck Turgidson that he had heard “quite sufficient” from him at the roundtable discussion? Who’s in charge here FFS…
General Milley had to first get approval from his friends over in Beijing.
From wikipedia: “The president of the United States (POTUS)[A] is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.”
Emphasis added
Palace intrigues of mental midgets. Just turn the whole shit ball over to far-east contracted management already.
Then we can move onto the next step of our Khazar owners trying to get back at God for abandoning them.
pResident
Or
Pfresident
I like both.
Our Air Defenses saw that things a 3,000 miles before hitting US air space. CONgress and Biden has sold us out to China. So, it’s hardly surprising we let it float across the country with a free pass. We shot it down after its mission was completed…duh…
It can fly at the perfect height for an EMP attack; one we have already been told is coming.
The US Govt is at war with its citizenry and the globe; Covid Plandemic; a coordinated attack by DOD in conjunction with NSC and every US alphabet agency.
To me it looks like a setup of large proportions. What exactly?
I do know we have entered the darkest period in American and probably global history.
Belie vt
1.a: to give a false impression of
2.a: to prove (something) false b: to run counter to: contradict
Why do I get the feeling our government is telling us about 5% of the story regarding this balloon…Like they do with most issues…….
A goverment that claims it must have and does have the power to mislead and lie to the people of America, is a government that can never be trusted. Only time it is a national security issue is before the operation, it should be declassified after the operation is complete. They don’t want accountability period, so they never release the information or the operators and or outfits involved . Thus no accountability creates a covert dictatorship. Every classified document 10 years or older should be immediately released to the public unredacted,except in relation to strategic defense against our foriegn threats like china, etc. Classified for eternity should be illegal. Shine a light on the vermin, and rot.
China’s been modernizing their military for decades in preparation for war with us. They know can’t take us in a straight fight so they’re setting up the chess board and sucker punch. Assassins mace ,ie having just enough weapons tech and ability to take out a superiorly armed and armored opponent.
“What is it going to take for us to take China seriously as a threat?”
And if our government does, what next?
“The balloon was over Alaska nearly a week ago. Instead of dealing with it then, we allowed it to go untouched, giving China the upper hand, regardless of whether they set out for surveillance or to test us.”
so nearly a week to go from alaska to montana on friday,then a fairly hard left to north carolina in less than a full day —
but it was just drifting along,wasn’t it?
Jet Stream wind speeds at those altitudes are quite high.
What freaking joke. Does anyone out there not realize that China has spy sats just like America?