Because this was the show you wanted this weekend,
the Chinese surveillance balloon made it to the South Carolina coast where it was beyond the debris falling over a populated area, and then it got POPPPPPPPEDDD! The debris field was seven miles. This is why you don't do this sort of thing over populated areas. That could have been not-great. Also, the US was
on it like a bonnet and had been blocking the balloon from surveilling much of anything while trying to study what it was actually here for--so
we received some intelligence while it was up there, and China
did not receive so much intelligence.
We might learn more from what we gather from what got downed.
And anyway it was since Wednesday that Biden said to bring it down and the US military observed when it was safe to do it--and then it got done. You know, while all the critics were suggesting "Do it now!" as if the damn thing was about to cause havoc or whatever. No havoc got caused, friends.
