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As the Communist Chinese spy balloon soared over the heartland for nearly a week, it became abundantly clear that America’s enemy No. 1 is disturbingly emboldened. And why shouldn’t it be? It took our likely CCP-compromised president days to destroy the surveillance balloon.
The scariest part is that while the headline-grabbing balloon was shot down, the Chinese threat carries on. China has the world’s largest navy and is building islands to aggress America’s Southeast Asian allies. Chinese companies are buying up U.S. farmland, which poses a biological warfare threat, and they’re also buying U.S. cell towers that can be used to directly spy on American citizens and interfere with our military operations.
At the heart of China’s brazen military and intelligence aggression is its (accurate) perception of American disunity. An apt example comes from a recent viral TikTok video (which in a very meta way is itself a threatening product of Chinese spyware).
The TikTok features a 2019 speech by Iraq veteran and Medal of Honor recipient David Bellavia, a true American hero. What’s interesting about the video is that it wasn’t Bellavia’s entire speech that went mega-viral, with more than 8 million views not including the reposts, but only one specific clip where he says:
Our military should not be mistaken for a cable news gabfest show. We don’t care what you look like. We don’t care who you voted for, who you worship, what you worship, who you love. It doesn’t matter if your dad left you millions when he died or if you knew who your father was. We have been honed into a machine of lethal moving parts that you would be wise to avoid if you know what’s good for you.
Bellavia’s speech was meant to be intimidating for our enemies, and the TikTok edit was supposed to be inspiring and “cool” for young American men, given the dark and ominous trap song “Superhero” playing in the background.
