by Michael Snyder, End Of The American Dream:

It took a balloon for millions of Americans to finally realize that we really are on the brink of war with China.  When a four-star general recently warned that we would be fighting a war with China in 2025, that didn’t create too much of a stir.  And when U.S. Representative Michael McCaul stated that odds of a war between the United States and China over Taiwan are “very high”, that barely made a blip in the news cycle.  But the giant “spy balloon” that just floated across our country really got people fired up.  Despite the fact that China has been relentlessly spying on us in countless other ways for years, many of our leaders are suddenly acting as if some huge change just happened.  They are issuing all sorts of very angry statements and they are demanding action from the Biden administration.  Meanwhile, the Chinese are pissed that we just shot down their “civilian airship” and they are warning that they have “the right to respond further”.