HEY JOE! A CHINESE SPY BALLOON IS NO FORTUNE COOKIE / ALL IN A DAZE WORK / THE AMERICAN MAGINOT LINE
Vol. II | Issue. 145 | February 6, 2023
We all love fortune cookies right? No matter how good or bad the wonton soup or fried rice is, we all look forward to getting that essentially tasteless confection at the Chinese Restaurant after the meal. Why? Because even the most cynical among us think that there may be some infinitesimal chance that there is truth to the prediction contained in that curled-up little scrap. After all, aren’t they right most of the time? Here are some of the ones I've been lucky enough to get:
“Don’t worry the sun will come out soon.”
“Change is coming.”
“Work hard and you will be rewarded.”
These are just a few of the little gems… And actually, every one of them has come true at some point after I saw the cookie! However, I can assure you that the Chinese don’t believe in using fortune cookies to see the future. They are far more ambitious… The CCP likes to see the future through theft, bribery and organized intelligence in every corner of America. They steal from us at every level that matters from Industrial Espionage to our most Classified Military Intelligence.
On February 5th, after being allowed into U.S. Airspace and to fly unmolested over 11 states while completing its intelligence theft mission, the Chinese Balloon was finally shot down… after much political deliberation. Of course, this was after it was able to beam all of its gathered information back to our chief Military and Economic adversary: CHINA.
Good work Joe…. Why did you wait so long? Were you simply performing under the terms of your lucrative service contract with the CCP? Was your hesitation simply another manifestation of your weakness and incompetence? Was it both? Or were there other factors that made you, once again, decide to compromise the security of our country? Given the cover that will be provided to you by The American Prada, we will likely never get close to the truth as to why you failed to act…. But one thing is certain, you failed to act.
By now, every American should know that China is our most capable and deadliest adversary. They are not “friendly competitors”, they are the enemy. As our most lethal capable enemy, China’s relationship needs to be diligently managed through proper statecraft, but more importantly, through strength both preceded and real. When I say perceived, that is the part that will be obviated by the Chinese and will bring the direct military conflict to fruition.
If the Chinese believe us to be stronger than they are, they are far less likely to strike in ways that will hurt. That said, if the instrument of perceived strength and power fails to deter their aggression, then we must be able to invoke our real hard power, both Military, and Economic. Anthony Blinken’s threat to no-show is not power, it’s a joke.
On May 1, 1960, Gary Francis Powers was flying a U.S. Spy Plane over the Soviet Union. The U-2 spy plane was part of a special U.S. Top Secret Intelligence gathering project and carried the most sophisticated intelligence gathering apparatus of its day. Although the Soviets had generally been aware of the U.S. program, the Powers’ flight was the first that had the operational capability of making it across the Soviet mainland. It was also the first time that the Soviets had the capability of shooting it down, which they did. Powers was tried and convicted by the Soviets of espionage and given a three-year sentence in prison and seven more of hard labor. He was set free in a prisoner exchange in February 1962. Due to his confession and apology on Soviet TV, he was discredited in the U.S. as a traitor and collaborator, and upon return, his life was effectively ruined. Guess what the U.S. explanation was on the World Stage regarding the reason for the U.S. Trans-Soviet flyover? It was on a “weather-gathering” mission.
Fast forward to this past week… Can you guess what the CCP’s explanation was? They said the balloon was “flying over the U.S. on a ‘weather-gathering information mission’.
America today is starting to resemble France on the eve of WWII. The French during the "interwar" period between WWI and WWII built this little thing called the "Maginot Line" that was claimed to have been an impregnable line of defense that would make another German Invasion impossible. The Maginot Line was a physical wall covering the entire German border armed with the latest defensive weaponry, in addition to which, at the time, France had the largest standing Army along with more tanks, planes, and heavy armaments than Germany or any other nation in the world. When the Nazis attacked France on May 10, 1940, it took them only 46 days to conquer and occupy the Country. How did this happen? Hitler’s Nazi Germany was determined to take over all of Europe, while the French had a weak citizenry, decadent incompetence, and arguably French collaborationist leadership. In short, they lost their will, spirit, and ability to fight.
America, in 2023, has built its own “Maginot Line”… We spend more on defense than any nation in the world. We have built an American “Maginot Line” around the county, but we are betrayed by our leadership who willingly allowed our greatest adversary to send their intelligence balloon, penetrate our airspace, and complete their spy mission without consequence. Oh yeah, we shot it down, but only after it completed its dirty deed.
For Joe, this is all in a DAZE work… With Joe under contract, I’m not even sure why they bothered with the balloon, all of the intel they needed was probably right in the Trunk of his ‘62 Corvette, or maybe in his garage!
Just like the French of 1941, our American Maginot Line will not save us from Joe and his weak, incompetent, and increasingly Chinese collaborationist team.
Anyone out there want Fortune Cookie???
-Emes