4-Star General Blasts Biden Over Chinese Spy Balloon: ‘We Had Plenty Of Opportunity To Take It Down’ Over Aleutian Islands

Retired four-star Army General Jack Keane slammed President Joe Biden on Saturday for not shooting down the Chinese spy balloon that flew over the U.S. over the last several days when it was thousands of miles away from the continental U.S.


"Remember, this was approaching the United States over water. It was approaching the Aleutian Islands over water. And we had plenty of opportunity to take it down then. And that’s when it should have happened. We had to be tracking it from mainland China across the Pacific Ocean, and we had plenty of warning to put together an operation that we are conducting now on the east coast that should have been done there. And by the way, we have alert aircraft in Alaska for the principal reason of a penetration coming largely from Russia, and that’s why that aircraft are there. And they would have been able to respond to this when it approached the United States in name of the Aleutian Islands. Now we’re doing it in the backdoor when it’s leaving the United States — it’s anti-climatic "

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