Enough playing with matches!
Someone is going to get hurt and it’s probably going to be us!
You remember "us" don’t you? We the People? Humanity? Civil society?
Are we really going to sleepwalk into economic oblivion, famine, pestilence and World War III? Over the past three years, clear signs are emerging that this is exactly the path we are heading down.
Maybe we should hit the brakes.
Balloon war?
Really?
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that has its hands full with untold numbers dying of COVID-19, an economic nosedive, and a citizenry whose belief in Marxism is waning sharply, has decided to refocus China, indeed the world that they can openly provoke the United States with no consequences at all.
And perhaps, days later, repeat the whole affair again and again.
Radar anomaly? What?
So, for the last 10 days we watched the dangerous spectacle, asking questions that seem entirely reasonable except to the officials being asked.
Why would we let a spy balloon fly across the country unimpeded.
The official answers over the, so far, four incidents, share one common denominator.
They are free of logic.
The CCP just got a birds-eye view of top secret military installations, national infrastructure, and our weaponry, as the F-22 Raptor has been tasked with shooting down these objects.
Seems dangerous; but is this where we should be focused?
What if we look away from where the monopoly called the mainstream media wants our attention? If you look in the wrong direction, you will ask the wrong questions.
As concerning as it is that unauthorized aircraft are floating across the country, potentially with electronics ending weapons and more, this may just be the snowflake on the tip of the iceberg.
While you were balloon gazing, you might have missed a few things:
- Ukraine is hanging on by a thread; resupply is slow, and tanks and jets are months away.
- Europe’s economy is hammered from the short-sighted sanctions and climate nonsense.
- Someone blew up Nordstream 1 & 2 . . . was it us?
- Chinese-Russian-South African Military Exercises start 17 Feb.
- Chinese satellites are dropping green lasers across Hawaii — no explanations.
- The same countries are part of a growing consortium interested in ending the U.S. dollar.
- Farms are being confiscated abroad.
- Food processing here continues to be attacked.
- Brazil is preparing to welcome Iranian Navy ships.
- Chinese CCP police stations are in the U.S.
- Our Southern border is open to all including terrorists and fentanyl.
- North Korea is stamping out new nukes every day.
- The World Economic Forum (WEF) continues to plan our enslavement, because…climate.
These are just the "wavetops" of the "New World Disorder."
There are more — many more. If we shift from the 1000-foot level, watching the administration’s demands that we look the other way, to the 100,000 level, the view is more concerning.
Are we playing with fire? No, but our National Security Team sure is.
This group that has yet to be held to account, has a perfect record, of failures.
Our weakness on full display over two years from a disastrous opening round with China, our defeat in Afghanistan, letting a deterrable war happen, alienating allies and partners globally, and leaving us vulnerable to mass killings from a porous border, has sent a message to the bad guys.
If you have designs on America, this is your chance.
It might be a good time to call it a career for many of these wonky, ivy league heeled deciders. At least we should take the matches out of their hands and take a few steps back from the spark that could ignite the Third World War.
The winds of war seem to be picking up speed.
Whether it’s the usual suspects abroad, who dream of a world where the U.S. is vanquished, or perhaps more dangerous, enemy inside the wire that we cannot see, we must keep our heads on a swivel.
We cannot take eyes off elements of the highest strata in our country.
These are the privileged who hold no loyalty or love for America, yet they certainly don’t mind leveraging their power and wealth to self-enrich under the liberties meant for all of us.
Shadowy elites in the U.S. are China’s best friend.
These Davos-loving jet owners, do all they can to install attorneys and judges who refuse to prosecute the real terrorist groups, which, are also paid for by these parasites of the republic.
China could not be successful in its cartel-linked fentanyl attack without these modern aristocrats.
Let the balloons be our tipping point! This is getting serious.
If we are going to hold our national security team to full account; if we are going to put a check on the billions flowing into D.C. to undermine and weaken us, we must wake up.
It is time to melt the switchboards of Congress.
Take an active role in your community.
The urgency is beyond real.
Maybe we should be paying attention to the clowns instead of the balloons at the circus.
Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt (retired) is a co-founder of Restore Liberty, a former deputy representative to NATO, a lifetime member on the Council on Foreign Relations, and a Newsmax contributor. The views presented are those of the author and do not represent the views of the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, or its components. Read Gen. Holt's reports — More Here.
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